python regression tests - a monster hammer to keep wine "in check" :)

[Dan Kegel]

Luke wrote:
> 1) why am i the only person filling out the bugreports? :)

You got lucky and found a good test suite!  If you put up
a nice easy recipe, you'll probably get some help.

> 2) surely these regression tests would work equally as well under the
> python2.5.2.exe that you can get as part of the pre-prepared python
> win32 install that comes from python.org and activestate.com, you
> don't _need_ my wine-built version of python.exe

Indeed.  (For the curious, see http://docs.python.org/library/test.html )

> 3) why am i considering rewriting the tests as c-code when they can
> just as well be left as python code?

You only have to do that for the tests that fail.  It's useful
because a) it greatly reduces the size of the log a wine
developer has to look at, and b) adding it to wine's test suite
makes it much less likely to recur.

I agree we should be running the Python tests routinely,
but probably not as part of wine's "make test".
- Dan