About Wine Test Bot

[Alexandre Goujon]

Hi,

I have a suggestion about wineTestBot.
It's maybe the wrong place but I'm quite sure interested people read
wine-devel.

I think it would be great if we could
not only run tests (as it already does)
but also check if a patch does not break wine (on minGW, on cygwin or on MAC
for instance).

Thus, we could choose a kind of WINEBUILD VM to tell wineTestBot to only
compile wine with our patch.

Currently, I can't compile on Linux and cygwin is very slow.
So it would make my life easier if I could rely on wineTestBot...

Comments are welcome
Thanks

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Alexandre Goujon  wrote:
> Currently, I can't compile on Linux and cygwin is very slow.
> So it would make my life easier if I could rely on wineTestBot...

For any productive Wine development you need not only working compiling
environment, but a working Wine binary, to run at least 'make test'.

[Alexandre Goujon]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote
> For any productive Wine development you need not only working compiling
> environment, but a working Wine binary, to run at least 'make test'.

Ok so I could not run any test until compiling on cygwin works.
But the idea was to be able to remotly compile wine with some of our patches
applied.

I was told "you can't do that, it will break minGW".
The WINEBUILD VM exists but we can't use it (or tell me how to do that)

Of course I could install MinGW on my PC too...

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Alexandre Goujon  wrote:
> > For any productive Wine development you need not only working compiling
> > environment, but a working Wine binary, to run at least 'make test'.
>
> Ok so I could not run any test until compiling on cygwin works.

Even if compiling under Cygwin works, the tests still require running
them under Wine, and Wine can't run under Cygwin (and most likely will
never be able to).

[Seth Shelnutt]

Patchwatcher is suppose to sort of do this. It only works for linux, not
other systems, but it will not only check your patch against compiling but
also against the test suit and mark and regressions.

[Alexandre Goujon]

I didn't know this tool.
It looks quite interesting.

Thanks again for your advices