[postgis-devel] Roadmap for next major release of PostGIS

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Tom Lane wrote:

> Have you looked into using the current incarnation of pg_regress?
> It works fine under MSVC.

I'm not sure that we can use pg_regress as it stands, as we don't just 
issue SQL queries as part of a regression run. In particular, we have 
special tests for the shapefile loader/extractor utilities which load 
regression shapefiles into the database as PostGIS tables and check the 
resulting table contents against expected output using diff (and 
vice-versa).

So even if we do decide to use pg_regress for the SQL parts of the test 
suite, we still need a relatively platform-independent wrapper of some 
description to manage these extra tests. Unless anyone can come up with 
any other ideas, I think Perl is still the best tool of choice across 
all platforms.


ATB,

Mark.

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