Re: [shell32tests/shelllink.c] Use aliases for ordinals

[Alexandre Julliard]

Paul Millar  writes:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:11, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > Switching to ordinals only to switch back to importing by name once
> > MinGW is fixed is madness.
>
> No, *implementing* the tests using ordinals, then switching to named 
> is damage limitation in an imperfect world.  It separates our buggy 
> MinGW implementation from the work of winetest.exe, resulting in 
> improved testing throughput.
>
> We're not trying to fix MinGW, just test Windows.

Actually no, fixing MinGW is a very desirable side-effect of
cross-compiling our tests. If we find bugs in MinGW they should be
fixed, not worked around.