Re: Janitorial Projects

[Dustin Navea]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francois Gouget" 
To: "Dimitrie O. Paun" 
Cc: "Wine Devel" 
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: Janitorial Projects
> Here's a proposed addition to the Janitorial projects:
>
> Fix the conformance tests wo that they pass on Windows!!!
>
> Rationale: Running just the kernel tests on NT4 I could not help bu
> notice that:
> - drive crashed and then was would not run unattended and then had many
>
> failures
> - environ crashed and then had many failures
> - file has one failure
> - path has 133 failures!
> - process has 4 failures
>
> Testing on Windows 98 also yielded a crash for environ, followed with 20
> failures, followed with failures for pretty much every Unicode test out
> there.
>
> So according to our tests Windows 98 and NT4 do not conform to the
> Windows behavior!
>
> In other words many of our tests are plain incorrect. I strongly suspect
> they were written and tested with Wine and never run on Windows
> (actually when I tried compiling them some time ago most of them would
> not even compile).
>
> Now we have a way to pretty easily compile them on Windows. Here's the
> procedure:
> - get the Wine source
> - run ./tools/winapi/msvcmaker --no-wine
> (it's a perl script so you might even be able to do it on Windows)
> - make those source accessible by a Windows machine (e.g. export them
>
> via Samba)
> - load winetest.dsw in Visual C++
> - hit that build button
>
> What we need next:
> - a way to run all tests. A batch file would do the job nicely.
>
> Patrik, can that be added to msvcmaker?
>  2. people to fix the tests so that they actually pass on *all* Windows
> platforms
>  3. volunteers who will run the tests their Windows platform of choice
> on a regular basis so that we quickly fix incorrect tests
>
> The people doing 2 could definitely use the help of a couple of people
> doing 3 since they will probably not have access to all Windows
> platforms.
>
> Once the initial fixing is done we will really need people doing 3 to
> prevent bad tests from comming back.

Are we going to divide this up by Major (Win98/NT4/2k) or Major and Minor
(SP1, SR1, SE, etc)?

I can volunteer for Win2k (SP3 if Major and Minor)

-Dustin

P.S. If needed I could probably find some free space or an old drive to
install Win98 Regular on and run some tests...