Prep for Wineconf - testing

[Matt Durgavich]

I hack on Wine for Mac. Anything special someone wants?

-Matt

> On Aug 31, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> I believe I answered these questions off-list but here are the answers 
> so others know them too and can participate.
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Jeremy White wrote:
> [...]
>> Weren't we going to run an experiment by setting the run queue size to 1
>> to see if that prevented the msi timeout failures?  If changing the run
>> queue size from n to 1 and buying n machines will 'fix' this, maybe it's
>> time to do that.
> 
> To clarify the idea is to do nothing else while a test is running (and 
> obviously only run one test at a time).
> 
> 
>> I seem to recall that Francois needed cooperation from Alexandre to run
>> that experiment - is that right?
> 
> This is configured in testbot/lib/WineTestBot/Config.pm which Git 
> currently indicates has the following settings:
> 
> $MaxRevertingVMs = 1;
> $MaxRevertsWhileRunningVMs = 1;
> $MaxActiveVMs = 2;
> 
> This indicates that we can have two active VMs, which means one running 
> a test and the other idle, or two tests running simultaneously, or one 
> test running while another VM is being reverted.
> 
> But it's possible the settings on the winehq.org server are different. 
> Only Alexandre has access to that machine. If so, then I guess the 
> experiment would call for trying the following settings:
> 
> $MaxRevertingVMs = 1;
> $MaxRevertsWhileRunningVMs = 0;
> $MaxActiveVMs = 1;
> 
> I'm a bit skeptical that it would make much of a difference.
> 
> 
>> Once we think we've got robust Windows tests, then we move on to pursuit
>> of the the holy grail - having at least two Linux machines capable of
>> running make test cleanly.
> 
> Patches accepted.
> 
> 
>> And I don't see any for Mac :-(.
> 
> I should buy a Mac but I don't really have the time...
> Too bad we don't have any Wine Mac developers!
> 
> -- 
> Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
>                           La terre est une bêta...