Update installation and testing instructions #656

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1. aps9 commented on Jul 26, 2019

   

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   I see now that there is a file run.bat in the folder
   C:\code\t1\env\Lib\site-packages\transcrypt\development\automated_tests\transcrypt

   It's similar to the instructions but it has more command-line options. I assume these options are needed to make the tests run.
2. aps9 commented on Jul 26, 2019

   

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   It's working for me now.

   Here are the scripts I used to install it using PIP and using the ZIP file. These are fairly ugly scripts, but I hope you don't mind if I upload them here so I have them the next time I need to install and test Transcrypt on Windows 10.

   The issue tracker won't let me upload them with .BAT extensions, so I renamed them as .BAT.TXT instead.

   setup-transcrypt-pip.bat.txt
   setup-transcrypt-zip.bat.txt
3. aps9 commented on Jul 28, 2019

   

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   Here are my files for installing and testing Transcrypt on Linux, using pip or the zip archive. I'm not experienced in all the technologies that are used here, so having a script gives me enough detail so that I can install it and validate the installation.

   These are not polished scripts. I hope you don't mind if I post these here so I can access them again when I need to install Transcrypt on Linux again.

   setup-transcrypt.zip
   Contents:
   setup-transcrypt-zip.sh
   setup-transcrypt-pip.sh
4. fzzylogic commented on Jul 28, 2019

   

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   @aps9, thanks for sharing, it's certainly easier and faster to use scripts than to try and remember everything.

   In the 'ugly but it works category', i use this on windows to give a dev server some time to start:

   start cmd /k "timeout 10 & start /MAX path_to_browser.exe http://127.0.0.1 & exit"
   python -m http.server
   

   With bash one could use something like this:

   (sleep 3 && path_to_browser http://127.0.0.1)&
   python -m http.server
   
5. aps9 commented on Jul 29, 2019

   

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   @fzzylogic, thanks, I tried the commands you sent and they seem better than the way I was doing it.
6. JdeH commented on Aug 14, 2019

   

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   @aps9 @fzzylogic Thanks!

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8. davidedelvento commented on Feb 20, 2020

   

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   I too am trying to get started and got confused with the content of https://www.transcrypt.org/docs/html/installation_use.html#installation and specifically the tests.

   According to the scripts in this github issue, one should run

   transcrypt -r -xr -n -b -da -xg -c -sf autotest
   transcrypt -xr -n -b -da -xg -c -sf autotest
   

   However the documentation linked above say the following.

   transcrypt -b -c -da autotest
   transcrypt -r -c autotest
   

   One would assume the documentation is right, but it saysanimals.html which is outdated, so what?

   Moreover, what is one supposed to see? I see an empty table with the following header, does it mean all the tests are successful, or does it mean I ran none of them?

   _______________________________________________________
   |          CPython          |          Transcrypt     |
   _______________________________________________________
   |   Location    |  Value    |  Value  |    Location   |
   _______________________________________________________
   

   Notice the different order of "location and value" between CPython and Transcrypt

   In fact, using the longer list of flags (the first that I quoted above), the HTML table is not empty but contains a bunch of rows with "Errors=0" and at the top the Status is not empty either but it reassuringly says Status: Test succeeded.

   PS: thanks for maintaining such a project, it seemss very well thought and I am looking forward to trying it!