Daemon <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> at Nov 19, 2008 2:55 PM (MST) wrote about: Re: What does "fixing tests failures" mean for users? > > >Fazer wrote: >> Tests prove the correctness of code. Generally, when working out a bug or implementation you write a test that passes on Windows and then work on Wine until the test passes there and cause no additional failures. Higher test coverage prevents regressions and serves as documentation. > > > How would you go about *NOT* building the /Tests directories & makefiles from source? It practically doubles the compile time for no added benefit for me. > > The question is why would you not want to run the tests? The tests verify that your build completed satisfactorily. I would not trust my own work if there were no tests to back up my work. You could always use someone else's build to avoid running the tests. James Mckenzie
