Supported applications?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Jul 13 11:09:25 CDT 2009


On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Dan Kegel<dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Austin wrote:
>>Looking around the wiki/website, I can't find anywhere where the
>>'Supported applications' are listed (Powerpoint/Word/Excel viewer and
>>Adobe Photoshop CS 2, if I remember correctly).
>
> Maybe you're thinking of
> http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleaseCriteria

Yes, thanks!

> That's for 1.0 (I don't think we've decided what the criteria are for 1.2).

I'm assuming those 4 at least, so I'll work up some more tests (and
add tests for the '97 versions). Perhaps the 2007 versions of those
applications should be added?

>> Are these the only applications that are being targeted for 1.2?
>> Should others be added? Mozilla Firefox would be a great
>> candidate to add...
>> I ask, so I know which applications to make more strenuous appinstall tests for.
>
> It's a big commitment to add an app to the "must work for
> 1.2 to be released" list.
> The criteria for that list were
>  popular, useful, and freely downloadable applications which already run well
> To those criteria I would add
>  testable using autohotkey

Agreed.

> Firefox does seem to qualify (people still use it under wine
> to get at particular plugins).

Exactly the reason I proposed it.

> If you're going to do that, please
> consider invoking the existing Firefox automated test suites; see
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_automated_testing

I'll take a look as time permits.

-- 
-Austin



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