----- Original Message ----- From: "Francois Gouget" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dimitrie O. Paun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Wine Devel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: Re: Janitorial Projects
> > Here's a proposed addition to the Janitorial projects: > > Fix the conformance tests wo that they pass on Windows!!! > > > Rationale: Running just the kernel tests on NT4 I could not help bu > notice that: > * drive crashed and then was would not run unattended and then had many > failures > * environ crashed and then had many failures > * file has one failure > * path has 133 failures! > * process has 4 failures > > Testing on Windows 98 also yielded a crash for environ, followed with 20 > failures, followed with failures for pretty much every Unicode test out > there. > > So according to our tests Windows 98 and NT4 do not conform to the > Windows behavior! > > In other words many of our tests are plain incorrect. I strongly suspect > they were written and tested with Wine and never run on Windows > (actually when I tried compiling them some time ago most of them would > not even compile). > > Now we have a way to pretty easily compile them on Windows. Here's the > procedure: > > * get the Wine source > * run ./tools/winapi/msvcmaker --no-wine > (it's a perl script so you might even be able to do it on Windows) > * make those source accessible by a Windows machine (e.g. export them > via Samba) > * load winetest.dsw in Visual C++ > * hit that build button > > What we need next: > 1. a way to run all tests. A batch file would do the job nicely. > Patrik, can that be added to msvcmaker? > 2. people to fix the tests so that they actually pass on *all* Windows > platforms > 3. volunteers who will run the tests their Windows platform of choice > on a regular basis so that we quickly fix incorrect tests > > The people doing 2 could definitely use the help of a couple of people > doing 3 since they will probably not have access to all Windows > platforms. > > Once the initial fixing is done we will really need people doing 3 to > prevent bad tests from comming back. > Are we going to divide this up by Major (Win98/NT4/2k) or Major and Minor (SP1, SR1, SE, etc)? I can volunteer for Win2k (SP3 if Major and Minor) -Dustin P.S. If needed I could probably find some free space or an old drive to install Win98 Regular on and run some tests...
