Re: Add support for PROVE_FLAGS and PROVE_TESTS in MSVC scripts

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 05:19:22PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>
> Each time I do development on Windows, I get annoyed by the fact that
> it is not easy to run individual test scripts in the same way as we do
> on any other platforms, using PROVE_TESTS, or even PROVE_FLAGS. And
> there have been recent complaints about not being able to do that.
>
> Please find attached a patch to support both variables, with some
> documentation. Using a terminal on Windows, one can set those
> variables using just.. "set", say:
> set PROVE_FLAGS=--timer
> set PROVE_TESTS=t/020*.pl t/010*.pl
>
> Note the absence of quotes for the second one, so as it is possible to
> apply cleanly glob() to each element passed down.
>
> Thoughts?

+1, I heavily rely on that and I can imagine how hard it's to develop a patch
on windows without it.

Patch LGTM, althouth I don't have any Windows environnment to test it.