On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
I love the idea. Could it be packaged with wine, or do you think it would be better off being a cousin of winetricks?
The current script is a proof of concept. It would be nice if we could have something like this in Wine. The main thing I worry about is how some of the code needs to be packaged. For instance the script also compiles some sample code to retrieve information because systems don't ship a 32-bit glxinfo on 64-bit systems. The same way we might want to package other compile tests. Vincent mentioned a test for libjpeg which is broken on some systems.
I think that we put something like this in Wine we need some 'winetest' like tool which contains tests which have to be compiled. This tool would be called from a winediag script which contains scripts similar to what I have written. Winediag itself really should be a script instead of a program because a scripting language is better for hacky stuff :)
An argument for having something like this in Wine is that it would be useful for bug reporting. It could be used for filtering out bogus bugs. Second it would also be useful to have some more detailed info bundled with a winetest logs. I really wonder if AJ would accept something along these lines. Else it should become a cousin to winetricks.
Roderick