Windows Compatibility

[wtbarnes]

hissw was written and tested on macOS and Linux. No tests have been performed on Windows, but it appears that it does not seem to work there.

As noted by @schonfsj in #7,

I actually can't get the functionality to work, but that's because I'm running a weird hybrid system with IDL running in windows and python running in a WSL linux environment. So it's a compatibility problem of my own creation.

It's not clear what changes would need to be made to the subprocess calls to get this working.

[wtbarnes]

there's a chmod step that would probably have to be optionally skipped. See rice-solar-physics/pydrad#140

[jwreep]

I couldn't get it to work on Windows 10.

When I installed (trying both through pip and direct cloning of the repository), it did not create the directory $HOME/.hissw/. Trying to run pytest does not work as a result.

(base) C:\Users\reep\Documents\hissw>pytest --ssw-home="C:\ssw" --idl-home="C:\Program Files\Harris\IDL89\bin\bin.x86_64"
============================================ test session starts ============================================
platform win32 -- Python 3.11.5, pytest-7.4.0, pluggy-1.3.0
rootdir: C:\Users\reep\Documents\hissw
plugins: anyio-3.5.0, asdf-3.0.1
collected 0 items / 1 error

...

   from .read_config import defaults
hissw\read_config.py:10: in <module>
    defaults['hissw_home'] = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], '.hissw')
<frozen os>:679: in __getitem__
    ???
E   KeyError: 'HOME'
========================================== short test summary info ==========================================
ERROR hissw/tests/test_hissw.py - KeyError: 'HOME'
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interrupted: 1 error during collection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
============================================= 1 error in 0.44s ==============================================

[wtbarnes]

@jwreep Sorry about this. Issues with Windows seem to be a universal feature of all software I create! Can you see if the fix in #35 fixes your issue? In #34, I've also added a CI job for windows so hopefully these kind of annoyances can be avoided in the future.