On 11/01/2011 03:11 PM, Alexey Loukianov wrote:
a) [...] What I've got available to do the tests are three Windows-based PCs
You should have a look at https://testbot.winehq.org/ which let you submit a patch on several (VMware'd) Windows machines. But I doubt there is any input devices in these virtual machines. Can someone confirm/infirm this ?
the only "game input device" I have on hand is
You can also ask people here (or on IRC) to test your patches if they have the hardware. If you read wine-devel archives, you'll find that, from time to time, some people ask to test a patch for a new Gecko release or to run some tests on (mutli-channel) soundcards in order to better understand how it works.
b) I'm pretty limited with Linux-only as a host system for Wine.
And so do I and probably most of people here. You know, tests are run every (working) day on several machines : keep an eye on the results and provide meaningful error messages to help you fix your code. (see http://test.winehq.org/data/) Of course, if your code depends on OS-specific features, you can wrap your code with defines. And when you'll submit something, you're code will be reviewed so you'll got some feedback.