On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 09:09 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
OK, I looked. It has a big configure script. I tried running it under msys on wine, but that failed miserably. So I guess it's not easy, offhand (big surprise). I suppose there might be other ways to run parts of the mauve test suite on wine, but I'll pass for now.
I personally think this is a very exciting thing to get right. Being able to run an emulation layer like msys/cygwin would stress the hell out of the fundamental APIs, and would ensure a solid implementation in Wine. Not to mention that: -- they are OSS, making debugging a bit easier -- they have _lots_ of tests that can be run automatically -- said tests could dramatically enhance and broaden the available regression tests we have
Adding to this mix stuff like Java can only extend coverage. And we would be tapping into a huge barrage of tests.