Re: Windows testing/debugging

Is there any documentation on that? `perldoc -f system` only describes
the different handling of "system LIST" vs "system PROGRAM LIST" on
windows, not any differences between different types of quote
characters.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:28 PM Serguei Trouchelle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2019-02-25 05:11, David Cantrell wrote:
>
> > I don't need to use Andreas's analysis tool to figure out what the
> > common factor is in these test failures :-)
> >    http://cpantesters.org/distro/T/Test-Differences.html
> >
> > But I don't have access to any Windows machines, or any knowledge of how
> > to use any of the tools on that platform or how to install stuff. Does
> > anything exist now like the project a few years ago where Microsoft
> > donated some cloudy VMs for use by perl people that already had a
> > sensible toolchain and stuff installed?
> >
>
> I looked into the problem, the issue lies in calling system() with
> double quotes. Double quotes on Win32 behave different from Unix-like
> systems and should generally be avoided. This diff fixes the problem:
>
> 25,26c25,26
> <             [        "\\N{U+2603}", "\\N{U+1F4A9}"],
> <             [reverse "\\N{U+2603}", "\\N{U+1F4A9}"]
> ---
>  >             [        qq{\\N{U+2603}}, qq{\\N{U+1F4A9}}],
>  >             [reverse qq{\\N{U+2603}}, qq{\\N{U+1F4A9}}]
>
>
> --
> S.T.