Windows testing

I have good news to share (though, you might be surprised to hear this information coming from me).

Microsoft OpenTech, the group working on open source projects for Azure, has provided complimentary resources for testing Asciidoctor on Windows. The pledge comes in the form of $200 of computing resources per month on Azure (which is enough to leave a VM running almost the whole month). What this means is that I can run the test suite on Windows continuously.

I'm hacking up a script that will create and start a VM, run the tests, then shutdown the machine and destroy it (for some reason, that last part feels rather gratifying :)) The idea is to eventually get the script to run as continuously as possible...and on more than just Asciidoctor core.

If you need to test a feature on Windows, just mention it in the comment of the issue and I'll get you setup. Eventually, we may be able to hook that into a script that spawns a machine automatically, but we'll see.

This contribution by Microsoft OpenTech is important because it allows us to stay true to the promise of portability that Ruby enables and gives everyone equal opportunity to use a functional Asciidoctor, even those running on Windows. Anyone know if Apple is willing to match it?

-Dan

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Which version(s) can we run?

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:06 PM, mojavelinux [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I have good news to share (though, you might be surprised to hear this information coming from me).

Microsoft OpenTech, the group working on open source projects for Azure, has provided complimentary resources for testing Asciidoctor on Windows. The pledge comes in the form of $200 of computing resources per month on Azure (which is enough to leave a VM running almost the whole month). What this means is that I can run the test suite on Windows continuously.

I'm hacking up a script that will create and start a VM, run the tests, then shutdown the machine and destroy it (for some reason, that last part feels rather gratifying :)) The idea is to eventually get the script to run as continuously as possible...and on more than just Asciidoctor core.

If you need to test a feature on Windows, just mention it in the comment of the issue and I'll get you setup. Eventually, we may be able to hook that into a script that spawns a machine automatically, but we'll see.

This contribution by Microsoft OpenTech is important because it allows us to stay true to the promise of portability that Ruby enables and gives everyone equal opportunity to use a functional Asciidoctor, even those running on Windows. Anyone know if Apple is willing to match it?

-Dan

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Ah, I knew I was leaving something out.

The versions are listed on this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee924680.aspx

Basically, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012.

It really shouldn't matter too much because most of the compatibility problems are related to path handling, which has been the same since DOS. There are some differences when using PowerShell, but usually in the less-likely-to-fail direction.

-Dan

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:29 PM, LightGuardjp [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Which version(s) can we run?

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:06 PM, mojavelinux [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I have good news to share (though, you might be surprised to hear this information coming from me).

Microsoft OpenTech, the group working on open source projects for Azure, has provided complimentary resources for testing Asciidoctor on Windows. The pledge comes in the form of $200 of computing resources per month on Azure (which is enough to leave a VM running almost the whole month). What this means is that I can run the test suite on Windows continuously.

I'm hacking up a script that will create and start a VM, run the tests, then shutdown the machine and destroy it (for some reason, that last part feels rather gratifying :)) The idea is to eventually get the script to run as continuously as possible...and on more than just Asciidoctor core.

If you need to test a feature on Windows, just mention it in the comment of the issue and I'll get you setup. Eventually, we may be able to hook that into a script that spawns a machine automatically, but we'll see.

This contribution by Microsoft OpenTech is important because it allows us to stay true to the promise of portability that Ruby enables and gives everyone equal opportunity to use a functional Asciidoctor, even those running on Windows. Anyone know if Apple is willing to match it?

-Dan

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I hope those are the only issues. I'd hate for someone to come and say I'm using Windows 8 (or XP/Vista etc) and we can't trouble shoot it because it's something specific to that version.

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, mojavelinux [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ah, I knew I was leaving something out.

The versions are listed on this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee924680.aspx

Basically, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012.

It really shouldn't matter too much because most of the compatibility problems are related to path handling, which has been the same since DOS. There are some differences when using PowerShell, but usually in the less-likely-to-fail direction.

-Dan

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:29 PM, LightGuardjp [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Which version(s) can we run?

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:06 PM, mojavelinux [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I have good news to share (though, you might be surprised to hear this information coming from me).

Microsoft OpenTech, the group working on open source projects for Azure, has provided complimentary resources for testing Asciidoctor on Windows. The pledge comes in the form of $200 of computing resources per month on Azure (which is enough to leave a VM running almost the whole month). What this means is that I can run the test suite on Windows continuously.

I'm hacking up a script that will create and start a VM, run the tests, then shutdown the machine and destroy it (for some reason, that last part feels rather gratifying :)) The idea is to eventually get the script to run as continuously as possible...and on more than just Asciidoctor core.

If you need to test a feature on Windows, just mention it in the comment of the issue and I'll get you setup. Eventually, we may be able to hook that into a script that spawns a machine automatically, but we'll see.

This contribution by Microsoft OpenTech is important because it allows us to stay true to the promise of portability that Ruby enables and gives everyone equal opportunity to use a functional Asciidoctor, even those running on Windows. Anyone know if Apple is willing to match it?

-Dan

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And this would be why OSs should be numbered. My bad, Vista is actually newer than XP, but I guess Vista had pretty crappy adoption, as a lot more people are still on XP, though it is older.

However, both XP and Vista no longer have 'mainstream' support (whatever mainstream means). XP 'extended' support ends in April 2014, Vista's in 2017. Despite still having 'extended' support, I still don't think we should worry about Vista. The migration path recommended to the XP users is to migrate to Windows 7. Windows 7 is the next 'long term' supported Microsoft OS. (Does this mean Windows 8 will only be supported for the short term???)

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