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fix: Windows platform compatibility#111

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fix: Windows platform compatibility#111
FirstCastSolutions423 wants to merge 2 commits intoldayton:mainfrom
FirstCastSolutions423:fix/windows-compatibility

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Summary

Fixes 20 test failures on Windows and resolves runtime path-matching bugs affecting Windows users.

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src/dippy/core/config.py — Cross-platform path normalization

  • Add _posix_str() to normalize backslashes to forward slashes for consistent fnmatch matching
  • Detect Windows drive-letter paths (C:\...) in _classify_token()

src/dippy/dippy_statusline.py — Windows compatibility

  • Add sys.stdout.reconfigure(encoding="utf-8") to handle emoji output on Windows (cp1252 default)
  • Add _refresh_mcp_cache_python() — pure Python replacement for the awk|paste|sed pipeline on Windows
  • Unix shell pipeline preserved unchanged behind sys.platform check

tests/test_statusline.py, tests/test_entrypoint.py

  • Replace hardcoded /usr/bin/python3 with sys.executable
  • Skip symlink tests on Windows (require SeCreateSymbolicLink privilege)

tests/test_config.py

  • Monkeypatch USERPROFILE (not just HOME) for tilde expansion on Windows
  • Update path assertions to expect forward-slash normalized output

Test Results

  • Before: 10,863 passed, 20 failed, 1 skipped
  • After: 10,880 passed, 0 failed, 4 skipped (symlink tests on Windows)
  • No regressions on Linux

FirstCastSolutions423 and others added 2 commits March 18, 2026 12:58
Normalize all paths to forward slashes for consistent glob matching
across platforms. Detect Windows drive-letter paths (C:\...) as absolute.
Fix statusline Unicode encoding on Windows (cp1252 → UTF-8).
Update tests to use sys.executable instead of hardcoded /usr/bin/python3,
skip symlink tests on Windows, and handle USERPROFILE for tilde expansion.

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ldayton commented Mar 22, 2026

Thanks for the contribution! Windows support is appreciated.

A few things to flag — this touches the path normalization in the rule matching engine, which is security-critical code, so it warrants extra caution:

  • Broken test: test_nested_symlink_invocation still references SYSTEM_PYTHON directly (doesn't go through _run()), but the constant was removed. This would NameError on Unix. The stated "0 failed" results on Linux don't seem to reflect this.
  • Lost test coverage: The symlink tests previously used system Python intentionally ("to avoid venv masking import issues"). Switching to sys.executable weakens that coverage on Unix, even though it's necessary on Windows.
  • _posix_str runs unconditionally on all platforms — on Unix this is a no-op for normal paths, but it's worth being deliberate about whether this should be gated on sys.platform.
  • Pre-existing: _glob_to_regex (for ** patterns) doesn't do case normalization like fnmatch does on Windows, so there's a matching inconsistency for ** redirect rules. Not introduced here but worth noting since you're in this area.

The core _posix_str approach is sound — without it, the == comparisons in _match_words would silently fail on Windows while fnmatch would succeed, which is a real bug. But given this is the rule matching engine, each change needs careful verification on both platforms.

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