On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:58:36PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
[...]
> Undocumented behavior should not be tested for unless an application
> depends on that behavior. Our goal is not to make a clone of a specific
> version of Windows but to be able to run Windows applications on Unix.
Wine will be a version of Windows of its' own, then.
> > I'm probably making a mountain out of a molehill, and I'll just try
> > modifying my tests to work the way Alexandre proposes. I'm just afraid this
> > is setting additonal obstacles for (non Wine) developers to write regression
> > tests.
The mountain/molehill might be this: an application checks for anomaly A.
It now "knows" it runs under Win95 OSR2 and then expects also anomaly B
present in Win95 OSR2. Wine might behave differently.
But in practice this might not be a problem. So I guess you're right,
we will deal with this stuff as it turns up.
--
regards,
Jakob Eriksson
The wages of sin
is debugging.
-- Ron Jeffries
