testbot and NT4

[Ann and Jason Edmeades]

Hiya,

Its been a while since I did some cmd work and noticed there were some new
bugs so am doing some fiddling. The real pain for me was always keeping the
tests passing on nt4, so I noted with relief/surprise that the testbot
doesnt have an NT4 VM anymore.

Is it correct that there is no longer a requirement for tests to pass on
NT4 for submission (if it's required, I really need a nt4 testbot!)

If not, is there any objection to removing the numerous hacks in the test
suite so they run on NT4?

Thanks,
Jason

[André Hentschel]

On 02.06.2013 23:58, Ann and Jason Edmeades wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> Its been a while since I did some cmd work and noticed there were some new bugs so am doing some fiddling. The real pain for me was always keeping the tests passing on nt4, so I noted with relief/surprise that the testbot doesnt have an NT4 VM anymore.
>
> Is it correct that there is no longer a requirement for tests to pass on NT4 for submission (if it's required, I really need a nt4 testbot!)
>
> If not, is there any objection to removing the numerous hacks in the test suite so they run on NT4?

I haven't heard about NT4 been taking out of the requirement. I guess the NT4 machines are offline due to the transition to the new testbot (newtestbot.winehq.org).
Hopefully the machines are working again on one of the testbots soon, let's wait a bit. With the upcoming code freeze i'd say we need them. maybe someone else can tell more.

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:47 AM, André Hentschel  wrote:
> On 02.06.2013 23:58, Ann and Jason Edmeades wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > Its been a while since I did some cmd work and noticed there were some new bugs so am doing some fiddling. The real pain for me was always keeping the tests passing on nt4, so I noted with relief/surprise that the testbot doesnt have an NT4 VM anymore.
> >
> > Is it correct that there is no longer a requirement for tests to pass on NT4 for submission (if it's required, I really need a nt4 testbot!)
> >
> > If not, is there any objection to removing the numerous hacks in the test suite so they run on NT4?
>
> I haven't heard about NT4 been taking out of the requirement. I guess the NT4 machines are offline due to the transition to the new testbot (newtestbot.winehq.org).
> Hopefully the machines are working again on one of the testbots soon, let's wait a bit. With the upcoming code freeze i'd say we need them. maybe someone else can tell more.

IIRC Alexandre stated some time ago (on IRC?) that the NT 4 support
would/could be "removed" once the new testbot infrastructure is in
place.

Just my 2 ¢

Frédéric

[Alexandre Julliard]

André Hentschel  writes:
> I haven't heard about NT4 been taking out of the requirement. I guess
> the NT4 machines are offline due to the transition to the new testbot
> (newtestbot.winehq.org).  Hopefully the machines are working again on
> one of the testbots soon, let's wait a bit. With the upcoming code
> freeze i'd say we need them. maybe someone else can tell more.

I don't think we are going to bother setting up NT4 on the new testbot,
it's no longer worth the trouble.

[André Hentschel]

On 03.06.2013 22:22, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> André Hentschel  writes:
> > I haven't heard about NT4 been taking out of the requirement. I guess
> > the NT4 machines are offline due to the transition to the new testbot
> > (newtestbot.winehq.org).  Hopefully the machines are working again on
> > one of the testbots soon, let's wait a bit. With the upcoming code
> > freeze i'd say we need them. maybe someone else can tell more.
>
> I don't think we are going to bother setting up NT4 on the new testbot,
> it's no longer worth the trouble.

Ah, ok. Didn't know. So the question is if François will continue to run winetest on his NT4 machines (outside of testbot),
if so, we should not yet remove NT4 "hacks" in the testsuite.

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 06/03/2013 10:36 PM, André Hentschel wrote:
> On 03.06.2013 22:22, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > André Hentschel  writes:
> > > I haven't heard about NT4 been taking out of the requirement. I guess
> > > the NT4 machines are offline due to the transition to the new testbot
> > > (newtestbot.winehq.org).  Hopefully the machines are working again on
> > > one of the testbots soon, let's wait a bit. With the upcoming code
> > > freeze i'd say we need them. maybe someone else can tell more.
> >
> > I don't think we are going to bother setting up NT4 on the new testbot,
> > it's no longer worth the trouble.
>
> Ah, ok. Didn't know. So the question is if François will continue to run winetest on his NT4 machines (outside of testbot),
> if so, we should not yet remove NT4 "hacks" in the testsuite.

My guess is that the same rule applies as for the Win9x test "hacks":
Only remove when the culprit code is changed anyway.

bye
        michael

[Francois Gouget]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, André Hentschel wrote:
[...]
> Ah, ok. Didn't know. So the question is if François will continue to 
> run winetest on his NT4 machines (outside of testbot), if so, we 
> should not yet remove NT4 "hacks" in the testsuite.

I will continue running them until the WineTest site stops accepting the 
results.