RE: winebuild & (name, heap, init)

[Patrik Stridvall]

> Steven Edwards <steven_ed4153(a)yahoo.com> writes:
> > I thought the WINE tree and regression suite would try and 
> > move away from a perl dependancy?
> > How is all of this going to effect building on 
> > Windows/ReactOS with Mingw? I have had a bitch of a
> > time getting Mingw+MSYS+Perl working and would hate to see 
> > it become a bigger requirement. If
> > -mno-cygwin worked right I dont guess it would be as big of 
> > a deal because then we could still
> > build WINE-Mingw under cyg but atm some import is still 
> > hosing things up and forcing importation
> > of cygwin1.dll so the recommended setup is just Mingw+MSYS.
>
> Yes, we should try to move away from the Perl requirement for
> regression tests. It was considered OK to depend on it because the
> framework itself was based on Perl, but now that all tests are done in
> C anyway we should probably get rid of it.

I see no reason to get rid of it.

If people doesn't have Perl installed just don't run them.
But then most people probabably have Perl installed anyway...

winebuild & (name, heap, init)

[Alexandre Julliard]

Patrik Stridvall <ps(a)leissner.se> writes:
> I see no reason to get rid of it.
>
> If people doesn't have Perl installed just don't run them.

This prevents people who don't have Perl from running the tests, for
no good reason since the tests don't actually require Perl at all. I
have no problem requiring Perl if there's a good reason for it, but at
this point it's not the case.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.com