It would be nice to have a simple way to verify that wine can still install apps properly. Ideally this test should run on either Windows or Wine unchanged, and should verify the checksum of all installed files. So I whipped up a demo of how to do this for winzip 10: http://kegel.com/wine/test-winzip100.tgz The archive contains a shell script winzip100.sh that downloads winzip, verifies its checksum, installs it, and verifies the checksum of all the files it should have installed. It's wine-specific, but just barely; with very little change it should work on cygwin, too.
It requires you to install autoit first. Autoit is a popular windows scripting tool which is even somewhat open source, see http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8389, and in any case is free to use.
Anyway, this is just a proof of concept. I'd like to expand this to handle a largish number of apps as time goes on. In particular, I'd like something like this to be in place and easy for anybody to run themselves before we do a 1.0 release.
If you're wondering why I'm not using cxtest for this, it's because a) that only supports wine, not windows, and b) cxtest seems a bit harder to set up than this.
Comments welcome... - Dan
Dan Kegel wrote:
It requires you to install autoit first. Autoit is a popular windows scripting tool which is even somewhat open source, see http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8389, and in any case is free to use.
AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) is GPL and can do most of what AutoIt can. You might give it a shot.
--mmebane
On 8/1/06, Mitchell Mebane mitchell.mebane@gmail.com wrote:
It requires you to install autoit first. Autoit is a popular windows scripting tool which is even somewhat open source,
AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) is GPL and can do most of what AutoIt can. You might give it a shot.
Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out. - Dan
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