Guide for creating new AppInstall tests

[Austin English]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Sam S. <smls75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Austin,
>
> thank you for your reply. I'll give it another try.
>
> Btw, I do realise that some questions of the step-by-step list I gave
> at the end are already (at least partially) answered in various places
> - this was intended more as an outline of how a step-by-step guide
> useful to users with no prior experience could be added to the wiki
> page.
> Your answeres already made the process much clearer to me...
>
> One thing though:
>
>>>  - on Windows: how to properly test-run/debug the new script
>>
>> By running it a few times and making sure nothing fails ;-).
>
> So you need to run
>
>  ..\tools\autohotkey\autohotkey.exe testname.ahk
>
> and then check
>
>  C:\appinstall\testname-result.txt
>
> correct?

Right. Or you can install AutoHotKey and just double click testname.ahk.

>>>  - on Windows: how to get all those checksums
>>
>> There's not an easy way on windows, without installing cygwin. This is
>> explained in the wiki.
>
> It explains it for Linux, I was hoping there would be a way to get the
> checksums of the files generated on Windows, without copying them to
> Linux first... Well, too bad...

If windows supported proper scripting and bundling sha1sum.exe, it
would be easier ;-).

>> If someone would volunteer to help with the documentation
>> (by proofing it, making sure I didn't leave steps out, etc.), it would
>> help greatly.
>
> If I manage to get it working now, maybe I can help with the
> documantation (by providing a user's perspective)...
> In any case, having a step-by-step howto of the actual process (as
> outlined in my first email) would already be a great improvement
> compared to having to collect the various bits of information from all
> over...

Feel free to e-mail me for help in writing a test (off list).

> One more thing: There should probably be a link to the AppInstall wiki
> page at http://www.winehq.org/contributing and maybe other places...
> (right now, it seems to be linked to only from the archived WWN
> article, which makes it not so easy to discover for users...)

Good idea.

-- 
-Austin