Looking for TestBot help

Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr
Mon Dec 21 09:59:29 CST 2020


On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Zebediah Figura (she/her) wrote:
> 
> On 12/17/20 3:28 AM, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > 
> > In these freezing times I'm looking for volunteers to help with three 
> > TestBot related tasks:
> > 
> > * Modify WineTest to detect which tests can be run by running 
> >   'xxx_test --list' and automatically detecting and dismissing the 
> >   "Missing dll" / "Missing entrypoint" dialogs. 
> 
> Are we sure we want to do it this way? It seems potentially quite fragile...

I think it would be more robust than what we're doing now which is 
trying to predict whether the linker will find all the dependencies the 
test needs, taking into account manifests, recursive dll dependencies, 
etc.

I expect it would also be less code and less duplication.

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Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
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