New test

Author: mosteo

testsuite/drivers/asserts.py

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def match_deploy_dir(crate : str, path_fragment : str):
 
 def assert_substring(target: str, text: str):
     """
-    Check that a string is contained in another string
+    Check that a target string is contained in a given text
     """
     assert target in text, \
         f"Missing expected string '{target}' in text:\n{text}"

testsuite/tests/misc/other-slash-in-path/test.py

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+"""
+Check that slashes from other OSes in paths are handled correctly.
+Fix for issue #1984
+"""
+
+import os
+from drivers.alr import run_alr
+from drivers.asserts import assert_substring
+from drivers.helpers import on_windows
+
+BAD_SLASH = '/' if on_windows() else '\\'
+BAD_DIR = f"test{BAD_SLASH}crate"
+
+# Initialize a crate in place within a directory with the contrary slash
+# to the one used by the current OS.
+
+os.mkdir(BAD_DIR)
+os.chdir(BAD_DIR)
+run_alr("init", "testcrate", "--bin", "--in-place")
+
+# Check we are were we expect to be
+assert_substring(BAD_DIR, os.getcwd())
+
+# Check that it can be shown
+p = run_alr("show")
+
+# Verify the crate name is in the output
+assert_substring("testcrate=0.1.0-dev", p.out)
+
+print("SUCCESS")

testsuite/tests/misc/other-slash-in-path/test.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+driver: python-script
+indexes:
+    compiler_only_index: {}