OS X tests status update

[Guillermo Gonzalez]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>> "Guillermo" == Guillermo Gonzalez <guillo.gonzo at gmail.com> writes:
>    john> d) Speaking of which, would anyone want to champion
>    john> getting the test suite to pass cleanly on Mac OSX? I
>    john> don't use it as my primary platform anymore, so I
>    john> don't run into it as often.
>
>    Guillermo> Or the other way around, I'ld be glad to be your
>    Guillermo> "padawan" on this ;)
>
> Whoever is the padawan, I'll be happy to work with you :)

fully agree :)

>
> <snip/>
>
>    Guillermo> Also, I found that:
>    Guillermo>     blackbox.test_mv.TestMove.test_mv_change_case_dir
>    Guillermo>     blackbox.test_mv.TestMove.test_mv_change_case_dir_w_files
>    Guillermo>     blackbox.test_mv.TestMove.test_mv_change_case_file
>
>    Guillermo> are failing because I'm using a case-insensitive HFS+
>
> And *I* am using a case-sensitive HFS+ and they fail too. I
> suspect the 'preserving-case' HFS property (even if it shouldn't
> show up for me, weird).

indeed..
after a little google search[1], I learned that by default HFS+ is
case-preserving AND case-insensitive.
So, I wondering if we should to teach bazaar this special OS X/HFS+
behaviour or we can reuse some of the win32 fs magic?

>
> Can you publish your branch on launchpad in the ~bzr namespace so
> that we can both commit on it ?
>

done: lp:~bzr/bzr/osx_tests_fix

Cheers,

[1] http://www.nabble.com/Filename-case-insensitivity-on-OS-X-td2184308.html

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Guillermo