[Wine]Crossover and Free/Wine

[James Hawkins]

> My real thought right now is to forget the developers for a little
> while and just start up a web-based database that lists how well
> things work right now.

http://appdb.winehq.org/
http://winehq.org/site/status

Let me know if you're looking for something more specific or different
from what those links provide.

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:18:15 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:06:41 -0500, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > it really appears to me that there isn't a consistent -APPLICATION- based
> > > test procedure happening with the standard version of Wine before each
> > > monthly release.
> >
> > As the open-source model of development goes, it's really up to the
> > people that use the application to maintain it.  That includes the
> > developers from crossover, and anyone that uses wine.  There are just
> > too many applications, and subsequently too many features in those
> > apps, to test before every major wine release.  We do have a
> > conformance testing system in place for the api though:
> >
> > http://winehq.org/site/docs/wine-devel/testing
> >
> > The problem is that we don't have enough tests, and we need more help
> > writing new tests.  The other problem is that it's very difficult to
> > test everything about wine that could break an app, say for example
> > whether a button is the right color or not.  We can't really test that
> > with automated tests.
> >
> 
> This is consistent with my understanding and (I think) with what I
> wrote earlier. However, that seems to imply that the only users are
> people who are programmers and can maintain it. I don't think that's
> necessarily a valid assumption as the user base and supported
> application base grows.
> 
> My thought, good or bad I don't know, is to do something *user* based
> which tests real apps. This would then start to duplicate a bit of
> what Codeweavers is doing with their application database, but would
> do it for each monthly release.
> 
> For instance, there are some apps I depend on Crossover for - M$
> Office and Quicken - that I would be willing to 'reinstall' in a
> second user account monthly to test for the community. If other users
> operated purely as users and did the same for other apps then this
> would be good information, or so I think.
> 
> There are other apps that I want to run, and can run, with newer
> versions of Wine. They include some that work, like Native Instruments
> Battery, and many that don't, like Native Instruments Reaktor,
> Steinberg's Groove Agent, Tascam's GigaStudio, etc. I'd be absolutely
> incentivized to to try installing these once a month if some progress
> was being made to get them to work. This is where the users, somehow,
> have to get linked up, directly or indirectly, with the developers.
> (I'd probably prefer indirectly, but that's my bias...)
> 
> My real thought right now is to forget the developers for a little
> while and just start up a web-based database that lists how well
> things work right now. 4-5 users, like me, trying out a few things and
> displaying results in a new way. If it helps it helps. If it doesn't
> it's no great loss, and not an issue for the developers since they
> aren't involved if they don't want to be.
> 
> - Mark
> 


-- 
James Hawkins