[PROTON-595] Python test function MessengerApp.start fails on Windows

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: proton-0.7
• Fix Version/s: proton-0.8
• Component/s: proton-c
• Environment: Windows ctest
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Charles E. Rolke
• Created: 05/Jun/14 15:55
• Updated: 07/Jan/16 11:37
• Resolved: 12/Jun/14 21:00

Description

The function uses Popen() where the first cmd arg is the name of a python file. Windows doesn't honor the #! at the beginning of the file and then fails with

  [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application

This code could also be improved by printing the exception error text along with the path setting hint.

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