[Bug 21773] Mail address needed to run dotests but no means to provide it

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21773





--- Comment #8 from Ian Goddard <iang at austonley.org.uk>  2010-02-26 11:54:05 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> It's not clear what you are trying to do

I'm trying to do two things at the same time.  One is to provide you with
regression testing and the other is to provide myself with user acceptance
testing.

I hope we can both agree that best practice in testing starts with setting up a
testing environment (sandbox) separate from the production environment so that
neither can interfere with the other.

The instructions on the website for running wintest-latest will simply pick up
the current wine version in the user's $PATH so it seems to be implied that the
user has already installed the latest wine into the production environment.  In
other words, install first, test later.  I hope I don't have to labour the
point of how far this fails to meet best practice.  If you have to consider
deprecating something, this is a prime candidate.

On first glance your suggestion of running ./wine in the source tree seems OK
in that it doesn't involve installing before test.  However there's nothing to
guarantee either of us that test and live environments won't interfere.