[Meego-qa] Usage of testrunner-lite on windows

[Timo Mäkimattila]

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 14:00 +0200, ext-tulasi.t.punaganti at nokia.com
wrote:
> So what is the option left for me ? Any idea if you would be switching to make us of libssh2 for testrunner ?

Hi,

libssh2 itself is just an implementation detail. It's an ssh library
that in the future will be used for remote execution. 

Could you make a bug about the Windows support to bugs.meego.com against
testrunner-lite? We will then assign the bug and start by briefly
testing if testrunner-lite will work in Windows. Then we can continue
this discussion in MeeGo Bugzilla.

BR,
-Timo

> ________________________________________
> From: ext Timo Mäkimattila [timo.makimattila at digia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 1:46 PM
> To: Ilvonen Ville.P (Nokia-MS/Tampere)
> Cc: Punaganti Tulasi.T (EXT-Tieto/Helsinki); meego-qa at meego.com
> Subject: Re: [Meego-qa] Usage of testrunner-lite on windows
> 
> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:40 +0200, ville.p.ilvonen at nokia.com wrote:
> > Currently there's no instructions for Windows. We discussed this with
> > Sampo Saaristo and Timo Mäkimattila the week before and they were
> > delighted to study if testrunner-lite would work on Windows ;)
> 
> Ahem :)
> 
> > Summarizing that discussion. Sampo said it should compile under
> > Windows - libssh might be bit of question. Sampo and Timo, please
> > share your thoughts.
> 
> In their website http://libssh2.org/ libssh2 doesn't seem to promise
> support for specific platforms, but the example applications seem to
> have ifdefs for WIN32. So it most likely works at least on some Windows
> versions, but needs to be tested before promising anything.
> 
> By the way, testrunner-lite doesn't currently use libssh2 yet. It execs
> plain 'ssh' client binary with remote commands as parameters. The remote
> execution implementation with libssh2 needs more work and testing before
> we can happily switch to using it. So you won't find that implementation
> from gitorious yet.
> 
> BR,
> Timo Mäkimattila
>