Markus, I'd say that this is a wrong take on the current state of affairs
regarding supporting Windows. I believe line 22 in easy_mp.py you refer to
is supposed to be one of the last warnings one would get if one were to use
some of the functions there with Windows in an unsupported manner, say if
objects can't be pickled. I don't think it means this file was written with
non-windows support intentionally.
I appreciate people code on different platforms but the way of working
shouldn't be aloof denial of the existence of Windows. In the short term
until you get a Windows PC perhaps Billy Poon might grant you access to one
of the virtual Windows systems he has set up for testing. Otherwise I'm
happy to run tests for you every now and then on my PC.
Regards,
Rob
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Dear Rob,
I beg to differ on that one. To me it certainly looks like the exclusion of Windows as a supported platform is currently intentional. And by 'currently' I mean that this is not a new thing, rather this has been the case since:
$ svn log -r 13380
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r13380 | rwgk | 2011-07-02 01:17:57 +0100 (Sat, 02 Jul 2011) | 1 line
libtbx/tst_easy_mp.py: skipping under Windows
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$ svn diff -c 13380
(..)
+ if (os.name == "nt"):
+ print "Skipping tst_easy_mp.py: Windows is not a supported platform."
+ return
(..)
Running tests on a Windows machine here or anywhere else will not make a difference when they are skipped internally.
Please note that libtbx.run_tests_parallel will always report the test as run successfully, and not as skipped.
Having said that, we (as in DIALS and xia2) would greatly benefit from full libtbx parallelization support on Windows, so we would welcome any development effort in that direction.
-Markus
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Markus, I'd say that this is a wrong take on the current state of affairs regarding supporting Windows. I believe line 22 in easy_mp.py you refer to is supposed to be one of the last warnings one would get if one were to use some of the functions there with Windows in an unsupported manner, say if objects can't be pickled. I don't think it means this file was written with non-windows support intentionally.
I appreciate people code on different platforms but the way of working shouldn't be aloof denial of the existence of Windows. In the short term until you get a Windows PC perhaps Billy Poon might grant you access to one of the virtual Windows systems he has set up for testing. Otherwise I'm happy to run tests for you every now and then on my PC.
Regards,
Rob
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