Here's a patch to fix the Windows buildbot failures that started at my
r1031610. The problem is our _quote_arg() function doesn't do the right
thing with a trailing backslash. For a solution it seems better to
simply pass the args separately to subprocess.Popen() and let it do the
quoting, than to try to fix and maintain our own quoting function. And
we can use the undocumented subprocess.list2cmdline() function for
generating a command-line string for display purposes. (We could also
use that for generating a single-string argument to Popen, but we don't
need to because it does it for us if we pass a list of arguments.)
I tested this in a WinXP VM, and it seemed to work properly with Python
2.4.1 and 2.4.3 and 2.7. (I ran 1.7-trunk's prop_tests.py 7 against an
installed svn 1.6.13, and it passed.)
[[[
Fix Windows command-line argument quoting in the Python test harness.
Arguments ending with a backslash were not correctly quoted.
This reverts r875257.
* subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/main.py
(_safe_arg_re, _quote_arg): Delete, as this didn't quote properly.
(open_pipe): Pass the list of arguments directly to subprocess.Popen()
instead of trying to quote it ourselves. Use subprocess.list2cmdline()
to generate a command line for display.
(spawn_process): Use subprocess.list2cmdline() instead of _quote_arg()
to generate a command line for display.
]]]
It reverts Paul's r875257, which was:
[[[
Fix test suite's use of subprocess on earlier versions of Python and thus
fix the djh-xp-vse2005 buildbot.
* subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/main.py
(open_pipe2): Quote arguments to subprocess.Popen(). Later versions of
subprocess (2.5.2+ that I know of for sure) don't require this quoting, but
versions < 2.4.3 do.
]]]
I was unable to see exactly what the problem was that r875257 fixed. I
would like to be able to say why it's OK to revert it, but I don't yet
know.
Can Paul or anyone comment or test or review?
Or shall I just commit this current patch and see if anyone has
problems?
- Julian
