wine compatible logo needed

André Hentschel nerv at dawncrow.de
Tue Jun 23 11:36:55 CDT 2009


Stefan Dösinger schrieb:
> Am Tuesday 23 June 2009 17:03:56 schrieb André Hentschel:
>> Stephen Gentle schrieb:
>>> Well, here's an idea for one (attached). Just five minutes playing in
>>> Photoshop (running in Wine, of course), but it's a start.
> One problem of such a logo is that Wine changes constantly, and apps may break 
> any time. So if we wanted to make such a logo official, that would be a 
> two-party contract
> 
> *) The app developer tests his app with wine
> *) The Wine community tests this app before releasing a new Wine release.
> 
> Currently we cannot do our part due to lack of resources, especially with the 
> bi-weekly snapshots. We have a very small set of supported apps in the stable 
> releases, but we don't know how far we can grow this as-is.
> 
> So any "works with Wine logo" would need some registration page on 
> www.winehq.org somewhere, and we'd probably require a fairly extensive set of 
> automated tests, for example some cxtest scripts(www.cxtest.org) that 
> automatically install the app and test if all functionalities work. If the 
> developer of the app has already an automated test suite(including GUI 
> tests), I guess it would be fairly simple to add a cxtest script on top of it 
> that just runs the testsuite.
> 
> So such a logo could also be used to grow the set of cxtest tests :-)
> 

I think this will be perfect for Austin's Appinstall when its ready.



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