1189597 - tc-vcs fails to run on windows

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Taskcluster :: UI, defect)

Description

[Anthony Miyaguchi [:amiyaguchi]]

Taskcluster-vcs fails to run on windows, which is cause by one of two problems that are known to me at the moment.

The first involves the spawn call running commands inside of a /bin/bash context, which is fine for the linux and osx, but troublesome for windows. I plan to run all commands inside of a powershell context, which happens to provide wrappers for common utilities (rm -> Remove-Item, mkdir -> Make-Item, etc). 

The second involves the behavior of the pathing module, which treats urls and paths as native system paths to join a path. Windows of course uses `\\` as a path separator in fsPath.join. I think this may be better handled by joining as a url.

Comment 1

[Anthony Miyaguchi [:amiyaguchi]]

With developments to replace tc-vcs with robustcheckout in bug 1247168, this is probably no longer worth attention.