Wine and mingw-w64 cooperation

[Martin Storsjö]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Francois Gouget wrote:

>> 3. Build a few projects - to make sure they build.
>> 
>> Wine, Wine Gecko, VLC should give a good coverage.
>
> That sounds like long running tasks so we will likely need new hardware 
> so the TestBot can run them for every patch that gets submitted: if 
> patches come at a rate of about one per hour, then the TestBot needs to 
> process the resulting jobs at a rate of at least one per hour. That said 
> we already need new hardware for PCI-passthrough for Wine (though the 
> exact details are not set yet).

Those projects are rather large, so either you need quite beefy hardware, 
or you just run some smaller test setup for each patch (rebuild mingw-w64 
and build a few smoketests maybe?) and then run a full build of those 
projects e.g. nightly (e.g. with a known good pinned version of those 
projects, which can be updated regularly). That requires a bit more manual 
intervention every time there's a regression though.

// Martin