Mike Hearn wrote:
I disable winetest in my tree entirely, and have done for a long time. It should be disabled in CVS as well, nobody should be building winetest on Linux, it just encourages people to submit useless results by saying "oooh I wonder what happens if I do this". Worse this isn't just about it taking
Actually there may be some value in running winetest on Linux. [*]
Also, that won't stop people from running winetest on linux, I'll bet $5 winetest.exe downloads from WRT will keep showing up.
* - We not only get statistics of how the Windows API works. We also get coverage of how well Wine is implemented in the wild, with different versions of Linux.
too long, on my machine attempting to compile winetest actually crushes it totally. It descends into swap hell and never seems to re-emerge.
That said, maybe winetest should not build by default. That doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
regards, Jakob