On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 11:10:23AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > +1. Also note that the Windows animals don't and probably will never > support Expect, since Windows doesn't have PTYs. Expect.pm is in fact a > pure perl module that sits on top of IO::Pty, which in turn sits on top > of IO::Tty. So if you have those Expect.pm probably isn't a huge > stretch. But let's not add a dependency if we can avoid it. And if we do > add one it will need to be a soft one like the case you mentioned.
Even with that, do we really care about some code coverage specific to Windows for tab-complete.c? Also, how complicated does the proposed patch become if we remove the dependency to Expect.pm and just rely on IO::Pty? -- Michael
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