Re: 3.0.20 regression testing

Lee <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1/5/13, Fabian Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On 1/4/13, Fabian Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On 1/3/13, Fabian Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> > On FreeBSD Privoxy-Regression-Test spends most of the time
> >> > (IIRC more than 99%) executing curl, so you could try using
> >> > a native curl binary which might make a difference.
> >>
> >> I suspect a native curl binary would be more trouble than it's worth
> >> since I'd also need a native perl binary + native whatever else the
> >> regression test uses
> >
> > I always assumed that it would be possible to call native binaries
> > from cygwin (but don't remember ever testing it).
> 
> It is possible.  It's just been my experience that dealing with the
> differences between line endings, forward/backwards slashes, spaces in
> file names/directories, etc. quickly gets to the point where it isn't
> worth my time trying to make it work correctly.

For privoxy-regression-test.pl this is unlikely to cause problems.
Of course your tests seems to indicate that it likely wouldn't
actually be faster, either and thus TODO #88 might be the only hope.

Fabian

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