Dear Wine-friends, I was wondering if any of you would have a clue around why WinBUGS (http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/), a nifty Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler widely used in Bayesian statistical modelling, no longer works when run through any version of WINE newer than 1.1.12. I have encountered this issue of my machines at home (which runs on Zenwalk 6.0) and work (Mandriva 2008.1) a while ago, but only reported it now as I kept on hoping for the issue to be resolved. Curiously enough OpenBUGS (http://www.math.helsinki.fi/openbugs/), an open-source version of WinBUGS, runs without a hitch under any version of WINE. Should I report this as a (win)bug? With many thanks in advance.
2009/4/2 sconti555 <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:> I was wondering if any of you would have a clue around why WinBUGS (http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/), a nifty Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler widely used in Bayesian statistical modelling, no longer works when run through any version of WINE newer than 1.1.12. > I have encountered this issue of my machines at home (which runs on Zenwalk 6.0) and work (Mandriva 2008.1) a while ago, but only reported it now as I kept on hoping for the issue to be resolved. ?Curiously enough OpenBUGS (http://www.math.helsinki.fi/openbugs/), an open-source version of WinBUGS, runs without a hitch under any version of WINE. > Should I report this as a (win)bug? ?With many thanks in advance.You should indeed - real app, used to run, doesn't run now, a regression. Is the binary freeware (if not open source)? Then others can test as well. Either way, you would provide the best possible bug reporting by doing a regression test on Wine. This is laborious, but not complicated if you're OK at the command line :-) http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting This will let you zero in very effectively on the precise commit that broke the application. - d.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, sconti555 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Dear Wine-friends, > > I was wondering if any of you would have a clue around why WinBUGS (http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/), a nifty Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler widely used in Bayesian statistical modelling, no longer works when run through any version of WINE newer than 1.1.12. > > I have encountered this issue of my machines at home (which runs on Zenwalk 6.0) and work (Mandriva 2008.1) a while ago, but only reported it now as I kept on hoping for the issue to be resolved. ?Curiously enough OpenBUGS (http://www.math.helsinki.fi/openbugs/), an open-source version of WinBUGS, runs without a hitch under any version of WINE. > > Should I report this as a (win)bug? ?With many thanks in advance.You'll need to run a regression test to found what broke it: http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting then file a bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/ -- -Austin
austin987 wrote:> You'll need to run a regression test to found what broke it: > http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting > > then file a bug: > http://bugs.winehq.org/ >Dear David Gerard and austin987, thanks to you both for your prompt and supportive replies. I'll take a peek into 'regression testing' (a concept unheard to me to date); hopefully this will help Wine developers.