[qmtest] qmtest and cygwin

[Stefan Seefeld]

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> thomas guyonnet wrote:
> 
>> hello,
>> I'm a french developper (so sorry for my poor english) and  I try to 
>> use qmtest. I use cygwin in a windows NT OS and I have the pyton 2.4 
>> version.
>> After installing qm-2.2.linux-i686.tar.gz et follow the instructions 
>> of the user's guide, I can't  execute anything. When I try 'qmtest 
>> run' or 'qmtest gui', an error message appear:
>> bash: /usr/bin/qmtest: /usr/bin/python2: bad interpreter: No such file 
>> or directory
> 
> 
> QMTest doesn't support Cygwin directly.  It's best to use the native 
> Windows version on Windows.  It certainly could be made to work with 
> Cygwin, but nobody has done that.  The basic change would be to find the 
> places that check the operating system in use to see if it is Windows, 
> and use and change them to use a function that determines whether or not 
> the system is Windows and not Cygwin.  Patches welcome!


I remember having considered to support both win32 as well as cygwin when
working on the installation procedure. I believe the reason not to use
cygwin had been some problems with subprocess management on that platform
(i.e. some issues with the interaction between the OS and the cygwin runtime
library).
It may be worth trying with more recent versions of python/cygwin/windows.

Regards,
		Stefan