This is a simple thing that will seriously help wine development. The wine developers have created a test sistem to check if wine works like microsoft windows, but more users are needed to run the tests. A windows service has been created for this task, once installed, it will download the latest version of the wine tests, run them and send the results to the winehq server. So if you have a computer running windows95/98/me/xp/server2003/nt3.51/nt4 then you can really help. To run the wine tests, download and install the winrash service from this page http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103445 thank you, Ivan.
Ivan Leo Puoti wrote:> This is a simple thing that will seriously help wine development. > The wine developers have created a test sistem to check if wine works > like microsoft windows, but more users are needed to run the tests. > A windows service has been created for this task, once installed, it will > download the latest version of the wine tests, run them and send the > results to the winehq server. So if you have a computer running > windows95/98/me/xp/server2003/nt3.51/nt4 then you can really help. > To run the wine tests, download and install the winrash service from > this page http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103445 > thank you, Ivan. >Hi, I have Win XP Home, XP Pro, NT 4.0 Server, NT 4.0 Workstation and Win 2K Pro all running here in the office or at home in my recording studio. Please promise me that these tests are not some (not so) funny Linux developer's way to get back at people who run Windows. These are good things to do? Safe? Have been tested by others? Will not corrupt my systems? With a name like 'Win Rash' it looks like something I really don't want to touch!! I know it's not you Ivan! You're a great guy and very helpful in the past. If it wasn't someone I'd seen here before I wouldn't even consider this. - Mark
Ivan Leo Puoti wrote:>This is a simple thing that will seriously help wine development. >The wine developers have created a test sistem to check if wine works >like microsoft windows, but more users are needed to run the tests. >A windows service has been created for this task, once installed, it will >download the latest version of the wine tests, run them and send the >results to the winehq server. So if you have a computer running >windows95/98/me/xp/server2003/nt3.51/nt4 then you can really help. >To run the wine tests, download and install the winrash service from >this page http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103445 >thank you, Ivan. > > > >Is Windows 2K SP4 not a useful testbed, or just missed in the listing of OSes? My boyfriend owes me a (computer) service for making me run Seti/BOINC to help him, but he can't return the favor if Win2K is not supported :-( . Say it isn't so! Holly
If you go to our download page at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241 at the bottom you will see the tests. You can run them see for yourself, they are harmless. You can also uninstall winrash at any time from the control panel. Ivan.
> Is Windows 2K SP4 not a useful testbed, or just missed in the listing of OSes?All service packs are welcome. If you aren't in a seti team consider joining the wine seti@home team. http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_172471.html Ivan.
> OK, I've installed it on a Win 2K Pro machine. I see a winrash >process running, but now what? How do I run the tests?You don't, winrash does it for you.> Did my results get included somewhere on the net? How do I see my test results?http://test.winehq.com/data> Does this software have to stay installed to be of value to you?Yes.>I've built this machine for a lady here in the office, but I don't want >to leave winrash on the box when she starts using it.Please try and use it on computers that you will be using. While it is useful for you to have winrash installed for a while, it's better if you install it on a pc that can keep it installed indefinitly. You do't have to do anything at all to run winrash, it's an automatic program. Ivan.
> Have we missed some indicator, is this process meant to be totally > invisible, or are the tests just not yet available from the server?The tests are meant to be invisible, you'll see your results at this address http://test.winehq.com/data at the bottom of the page you'll always find the most recent tests. You can identify the results from your pc from the userid you used when you installed winrash. Ivan.
> Here are some errors which may or may not have been logged and included > in the report:The results are uploaded to test.winehq.com/data you don't need to report manually. Ivan.
> That's it; takes maybe 5 minutes. I would imagine that you could then > uninstall the service (winerash), unless you wanted to leave it around > in case further versions of winetest come out (or unless Ivan says there > is some further use for it after those 5 minutes ;-) ).The whole point of winrash is to download and run new tests when they became available, and upload the results. It's an anutomatic thing, you won't see anything. You can see the results on the wienhq server, test.winehq.com/data New tests are released almos every day. Please leave winrash installed if you can. Ivan.
Please send all bug reports about winrash to wine-devel@winehq.com Ivan.
* Ivan Leo Puoti <puoti@inwind.it> [2004-07-28 19:14 +0200]:> > This is a simple thing that will seriously help wine development. > The wine developers have created a test sistem to check if wine works > like microsoft windows, but more users are needed to run the tests. > A windows service has been created for this task, once installed, it will > download the latest version of the wine tests, run them and send the > results to the winehq server. So if you have a computer running > windows95/98/me/xp/server2003/nt3.51/nt4 then you can really help. > To run the wine tests, download and install the winrash service from > this page http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103445 > thank you, Ivan.I installed this on a windows 98se box. I can't say I like having the DOS window open all the time (it's ugly). Can this not be written as a windows programme, and sit in the system tray? Also, during the installation process, after I entered my email address, the installer removed what it called 'invalid characters' - i.e., underscores. All my main email addresses contain underscores, so I was forced to enter an old one that is not very reliable. -- Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn "Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done." -Ernie Kovacs -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20040730/2f8d1e2f/attachment.pgp
1. The installer removes the underscore from my emial. This is a legal character for everyone else. Will not let me put it back. 2. Installer failed, not being able to write its .exe file.