Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com writes:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Even without any new features, it seems to me that passing all tests on all platforms might all on its own merit a new stable release.
Grouping platforms by age: 2000 and earlier have 75 rows with red or mixed, XP/2003/Vista/2008 have 19 rows with red or mixed.
Given how most apps for the last while have been targeted at XP or Vista, it's quite tempting to say that even fixing just those 19 rows, i.e. passing all tests on XP, 2003, Vista, and Windows 2008 (and Wine), all 32 bits, would merit a new stable release.
I don't think tests passing on Windows is a reason for a release, it has very little impact on the Wine code. In the vast majority of cases these are tests that already succeed on Wine and on some Windows versions, so fixing them only involves making them less strict. That's not something users care about.
You could certainly make the argument that failing tests should block the release, but that doesn't imply that succeeding tests justify a release all by themselves.