Extending the testframe to cope with different windows versions

[Kai Blin]

On Friday 24 November 2006 13:33, Paul Vriens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after my last patch to yet 'remove' another test I had another look at
> tests.winehq.org. With the arrival of IE7 and of course a lot of changes
> to dll's (not even mentioning Vista) it looks like Windows versions are
> starting to behave not even close to similar.

Do we really need to test all windows versions? Looking at the test page, 
there seems to be no real consistent pattern of windows boxes running the 
tests.

> How can we deal with these differences? Several tests we have already
> include checks against a lot of possible return values or errorcodes.
> It's a shame when we have to stop running a test because it fails on 1
> or more versions of Windows.

Well, usually something like this means that applications will fail if they 
can't deal with this. I'm not sure if it's too much of a problem.

Cheers,
Kai

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