What disturbs me about the conformance tests is that yes there are 0% failures but when you check you discover its 0% failures on virtual machines. Failures on real hardware under XP can reach as high as 6% with peaks greater than that. Windows is tolerant of all types of hardware wine still isn't. I may be stating the obvious but hardware tolerance must be a goal for the wine project if it isn't already.
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Keith
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Keith Muirkeith_kw_muir@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
What disturbs me about the conformance tests is that yes there are 0% failures but when you check you discover its 0% failures on virtual machines. Failures on real hardware under XP can reach as high as 6% with peaks greater than that. Windows is tolerant of all types of hardware wine still isn't. I may be stating the obvious but hardware tolerance must be a goal for the wine project if it isn't already.
Those conformance tests shouldn't care about hardware (graphics tests aside). When testing 'bare iron', you're likely to be testing non-clean installs. Virtual machines have the benefit that they can be reset each day, so e.g., old cruft from tests, other applications, etc. aren't there to mess up the results.
A lot of the 'real' machines also aren't necessarily english locales, or have a different DPI set, which breaks some tests.
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