Please fix failing unit tests with Windows platform

[Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)]

On 2022-01-24 01:32, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Montag, 24. Januar 2022, 01:22:05 CET schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
>> Are you going to propose the same for Linux and FreeBSD where we also 
>> have
>> long running tests that don't succeed and no one bothers to fix them?
> 
> Yes, if a test is known to fail, and no solution is known, it should be 
> tagged
> as EXPECT_TO_FAIL. Is there would be projects that do not do that (e.g. 
> if the
> maintainer only cares for Windows, to turn things around), for those 
> platforms
> where tests keep failing eternally unhandled we should drop the claim 
> of
> support (and wasting CI resources).

I can take a look at some tests on Windows.
But I would prefer to do so after we actually use the new GitLab CI.

And yes, I agree, that it should be the goal to have no failing tests on
all platforms we have a CI for.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich

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