Just an idea here from a non-developer...
Maybe bug reports could be automated in such a way that all fixme's and err's are stored in a file, and that file gets sent to Wine's bugzilla in intervals. Then it is automatically analysed and split up by DLL. That would make it the task of the developers to force Wine to spit out errors with every little thing that could go wrong. But if that would be done right, every error would be reported.
Of course there would have to be a popup asking if the bug report may be sent.
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On 4/8/07, Remco remco47@yahoo.com wrote:
Just an idea here from a non-developer...
Maybe bug reports could be automated in such a way that all fixme's and err's are stored in a file, and that file gets sent to Wine's bugzilla in intervals. Then it is automatically analysed and split up by DLL. That would make it the task of the developers to force Wine to spit out errors with every little thing that could go wrong. But if that would be done right, every error would be reported.
Of course there would have to be a popup asking if the bug report may be sent.
fixme's and err's almost never point to the cause of a bug. In some fortunate circumstances they do, but more often than not they don't.
Maybe bug reports could be automated in such a way that all fixme's and err's are stored in a file, and that file gets sent to Wine's bugzilla in intervals. Then it is automatically analysed and split up by DLL. That would make it the task of the developers to force Wine to spit out errors with every little thing that could go wrong. But if that would be done right, every error would be reported.
Of course there would have to be a popup asking if the bug report may be sent.
I do not think that this will work technically.
An ERR is always worth a bug report. An ERR should always indicate that something went wrong in the Wine Library itself that should never ever go wrong, and all known conditions that could lead to that ERR have been taken care for. Examples beeing a corrupt list, or a hashmap with elements somewhere where they do not belong, etc.
However, very few bugs have a specific ERR or FIXME which can be blamed for the breakage. Most bugs are because of failure conditions that the developers did NOT consider, thus how can they write a debugging output if they don't see anything going wrong?
Obviously the answer for finding unknown bugs is to write test cases, test cases, test cases.
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