Howdy, For those of you that don't know, I've got a Google Summer of Code project to make a better test suite for wine. The goal is to test graphical applications to find bugs that aren't tested by the test suite, and to prevent regressions that aren't prevented by it. While programs with installers can be tested, they increase the script complexity quite a bit. Eventually, installers will be tested, but simple applications with no runtime dependencies are ideal for testing. So wine-users, what are some of your favorite applications that have a small download available and work (at least somewhat) well in wine? For comparison, the ideal type of applications are things like winscp (http://winscp.net/eng/download.php) which has a portable executable for download. The portable version has no runtimes needed, doesn't need a config file (automatically creates one if needed), and works well in wine. Testing it under autohotkey actually found a previously unknown bug (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18455). Now it's time to find some more similarly hidden bugs :-). -- -Austin
I don't have the time to go look for it now, but you might want to look into very old Windows games (no directx) collections.
2009/5/18 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:> So wine-users, what are some of your favorite applications that have a > small download available and work (at least somewhat) well in wine?PuTTY is an obvious one. If Wine ever breaks PuTTY, you can be sure the yelling will be heard around the world. Unfortunately, Windows programs that don't have an installer are a rarity. (My regular Windows programs, EAC and Simple Sudoku, both have installers.) So those will be for Austin's Suite v2 or maybe v3 ... - d.
[/quote] Great list, thanks! I should've mentioned that zipped files are a bit hard, since Autohotkey doesn't have an unzip function, requiring either importing of a zip library, or installing 7-zip first. That's why completely standalone applications are the easiest. -- -Austin[/quote] I see what you mean Autohotkey doesn't seem to have an easy way to open archives. Here is a bunch of links to discussions and possible solutions in Autohotkey: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic23741.html http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic35296.html http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic16065.html http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic15135.html http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic23742.html - Nat
> Howdy, > > For those of you that don't know, I've got a Google Summer of Code > project to make a better test suite for wine. The goal is to test > graphical applications to find bugs that aren't tested by the test > suite, and to prevent regressions that aren't prevented by it.That sounds like an excellent idea! Are you going to count .msi files as part of the "self-executable" process? Also, what if you just create an icon whose command is to call a script, or call an unzipper, etc. and then invoke the .exe file for you? Then you could just record yourself clicking on that shortcut (this may have already been suggested in the links above -- I didn't check). If .msi files are legit I would suggest Steam. You can get the installer for free (though you need an account to actually login and test it so maybe it's not the best idea). It's a pretty popular application and certainly the reason why I run Wine. ;) I would suggest looking at the most popular applications on the appdb, but many of them are games and therefore do not have any freely available installers (not legitimately anyway). The only other possibility I can think of are things like compilers. For example, you could download the Java SDK (or just the JRE) from java.sun.com as an exe and run that. Also, you mentioned not wanting to use 7-zip on a file first...but what about using the 7-zip installer itself as a test case? I'm out of ideas at the moment but hopefully that will inspire something. Keep up the great work. Wine has progressed immensely since I first tried it out years ago. Hopefully projects such as this will keep it progressing for many years to come.