On 9/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Morgan</b> <<a href="mailto:chmorgan@gmail.com">chmorgan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 9/27/06, Dan Kegel <<a href="mailto:dank@kegel.com">dank@kegel.com</a>> wrote:<br>> The appdb has a "browse by ratings" page, e.g. you can<br>> see all apps that have at least one Gold-rated version at
<br>> <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/browse_by_rating.php?sRating=Gold">http://appdb.winehq.org/browse_by_rating.php?sRating=Gold</a><br>><br>> This can serve as a kind of poor man's application regression finder;
<br>> look at each app on that page, and look for apps<br>> whose latest version is rated lower than gold.<br>><br>> For instance, WinZip is listed on the Gold page.<br>> WinZip 9 is indeed rated gold, but winzip 10 is only silver.
<br>> Likesize, Sametime Connect has an old version rated gold,<br>> and a new one rated garbage.<br>><br>> If nothing else, it would be great for someone to look at<br>> all such 'regressions', test them with current wine, and
<br>> update the appdb and bugzilla with what they find.<br>> Who knows, maybe we can clear a few of these up without too much effort.<br>> - Dan<br>><br><br>When test results were added Tony and myself talked about all kinds of
<br>interesting ways we could farm information from those results.<br>Regression detection via test results is one of the interesting ways<br>we can use the data in the appdb. Basically we could look at the test<br>results across differing versions of wine and look for cases where the
<br>rating decreased while the wine version increased.<br><br>Another interesting one that I thought would be useful is to look for<br>discrepancies between the results of the same application and version<br>and same wine version across different linux distributions. We could
<br>look at this on a large scale to see if some distributions had more<br>problems than others for the same versions of wine.<br><br>These are both pretty easy to implement. If anyone is interested in<br>doing so and would like some assistance feel free to email me.
<br><br>Chris<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Also, on that note, just a helpful site pointer. There are several
different chat and im clients that work on wine, as long as the correct
version is installed, while other versions dont work for squat. <a href="http://oldversion.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">oldversion.com</a>
has the majority of officially released versions of the most popular
ones, including but not limited to: AIM, ICQ, MSN, Trillian, and Yahoo
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