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Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 08:40:24 -0400
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: Windows Vista support (Buildfarm Vaquita)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 13:46 schrieb Dave Page:
>   
>> Can we rename the test please?
>>     
>
> I'm thinking no.  Brain-dead systems should produce brain-dead test results.
>
>   

Not doing this would seem like sheer bloody-mindedness. We have 
workarounds for craziness on many systems. Not providing for this will 
mean that we have to disable the ECPG tests for Vista. I don't see how 
that helps anyone.

More seriously, we need to get the ECPG regression test rewritten in C, 
as was done for the main line regression tests. Maybe we need to factor 
out some of that into a library so the common code can be used in both 
programs. At any rate, until this is done we can't run the ECPG tests on 
MSVC builds.

cheers

andrew