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?
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Michael