* On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
- Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 16:49 +0200, Molle Bestefich a écrit :
We actually /ask/ people to do regression testing, here f.x.: http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winedev-guide/x1344 to find a patch that breaks things. Some developers has probably recommended that approach on the mailing lists too, I know I have.
The approach is useless however, until these simple fixes are applied to the tarballs (preferably through the versioning system).
Instead of appliying new patches to old versions which is unmaintainable imho, we could have VMWare installs of Wine and people could download the VMWare image of any Wine release and play it for free using the VMWare player !
I guess the download size will be quite big, but a small distro with only X, Wine, Gnome and KDE and required dependencies for example could fit on half a CD I guess.
One more (nice) way could be to run all the tested stuff (inside VMWare player?) on some remote X (?) server, so people should not download several large ISOs to test small software (instead they would upload small test-software packages into the server). But I start feeling this would require not a less amount of bandwidth too, so YMMV. :)