On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Walt Ogburn wrote:
Hi Gerald,
It's commented out because the test currently crashes under Wine. I submitted one patch earlier, but the metafile records weren't the same as the correct Windows values and it didn't get committed. Now that there's a test I'll work on another patch.
Should we have a 'skip_wine()' that would skip the enclosed tests altogether if the platform is Wine?
This way we could at least make sure that the test passes on all Windows platforms which is to compare to the current situation where the test author is probably the only one to have run the test and he probably did not have access to all Windows platforms. skip_wine()' would also provide something to grep for rather than the various workarounds used currently.
One might argue that this would encourage writing tests without fixing Wine but I would argue that the current situation encourages not putting such tests in Wine at all which is even worse.