vartest.c - major pain in the build process

[Ivan Leo Puoti]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:29:00 +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> wrote:
> "Jakob Eriksson" <jakov at vmlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > >I have to repeat again: Winword, Photoshop, Internet Explorer or any other
> > >application I and most (if not all) developers and users are care about do not
> > >run on an invisible desktop, therefore I don't care about tests running in that
> > >mode at all. It's not simply an optional mode, that's a mode completely useless
> > >for vast majority of Wine users/developers.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > For example file APIs many applications depend upon, and these
> > are totally unaffected by desktop visibility.
> 
> We can't really separate the tests, but still want the tests to show
> reasonable results in order to compare behaviour with Wine and to track
> the regressions. I don't see the point of publishing broken tests, and
> why running tests interactively can't be made a mandatory requirement.
It certanly should be at least an option.

Ivan.