On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 04:01 +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti wrote:
I think quite a few regressions get into releases, and while a few a tracked down some stay in the code for months if not years (I've heard of at least one game that worked some 2 years ago but doesn't now), while regression testing may seem trivial to a developer, it can be a challenging task for most users, especially if they are new to wine/Linux. So maybe we should recruit some people to get regression reports from users, find the patch that caused the regression, and report back to developers. Am I just to tired at time of writing or could this be a good idea?
Ivan.
I know Fallout 1 and 2 have been broken for 7 months, and I've even pointed the exact patch to lionel over IRC:
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/12/0125.html
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-cvs/2004/06/0029.html
The trouble is that I myself wasn't aware of it until it had been broken for six months or so. I agree that having good app maintainers (of which I now am for Fallout) is very important. Interestingly enough Fallout was one of the first games duplicated in the Wine wiki - I'm not sure why.
Lionel, meanwhile, needs to digup his fallout CDs to debug the app :)
Thanks a ton, Scott Ritchie