Small fix for the testing doc

Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr
Tue Sep 17 03:29:02 CDT 2002


That bit was very unfinished...

Changelog:

 * documentation/testing.sgml

   Explain why conformance tests are useful for port too


Index: documentation/testing.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/testing.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 testing.sgml
--- documentation/testing.sgml	17 Sep 2002 00:07:03 -0000	1.1
+++ documentation/testing.sgml	17 Sep 2002 08:26:00 -0000
@@ -79,10 +79,13 @@
           </listitem>
           <listitem>
             <para>
-              FIXME: Ports to new architectures involve New ports involve modifying core parts of Wine:
-              synchronization, exception handling, thread management, etc.
-              After such modifications extensive testing is necessary to
-              make sure the changes did not To check the correctness of new ports.
+              Conformance tests will also come in handy when testing Wine on
+              new (or not as widely used) architectures such as FreeBSD,
+              Solaris x86 or even non-x86 systems. Even when the port does
+              not involve any significant change in the thread management,
+              exception handling or other low-level aspects of Wine, new
+              architectures can expose subtle bugs that can be hard to
+              diagnose when debugging regular (complex) applications.
             </para>
           </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>



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