[Wine] What does

[James Mckenzie]

Daemon <wineforum-user at winehq.org> at Nov 19, 2008 2:55 PM (MST) wrote about: [Wine]  Re: What does "fixing tests failures" mean for users?
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>Fazer wrote:
>> Tests prove the correctness of code.   Generally, when working out a bug or implementation you write a test that passes on Windows and then work on Wine until the test passes there and cause no additional failures.  Higher test coverage prevents regressions and serves as documentation.
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>  How would you go about *NOT* building the /Tests directories & makefiles from source? It practically doubles the compile time for no added benefit for me.
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The question is why would you not want to run the tests?  The tests verify that your build completed satisfactorily.  I would not trust my own work if there were no tests to back up my work.

You could always use someone else's build to avoid running the tests.

James Mckenzie