[Kde-games-devel] Regression testing

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimecres, 1 de juliol de 2009, Ian Wadham va escriure:
> With all the talk there has been about Kolf, I was getting a bit
> panicky about upgrading to Qt 4.5 and the latest KDE trunk and
> finding that maybe my three games had regressed.  I have been
> working off KDE 4.2 (approx) and Qt 4.4.0.  So I finally bit the
> bullet, but before I did I hacked a bit at David Faure's cs and cb
> functions (in .bashrc), which I use for development work.
>
> Now I have built and installed Qt 4.4.0, Qt 4.5.1 (qt-copy),
> KDE 4.2 trunk and KDE 4.3 trunk, with the latest KDE Games
> trunk and I can mix and match library versions (e.g. kv 4.3; cb
> to build with KDE 4.3 libraries).  kv and qv are my versioning
> functions.
>
> Anyway, is there anything anybody would like me to try with
> this setup?
>
> KGoldrunner, Kubrick and KJumpingCube were OK with
> KDE 4.3 trunk and Qt 4.5.1 (phew!).  So were Killbots, KBounce
> and Kollision.  Couldn't see any problems with KMines, but
> KPat cut a corner out of a card once in about an hour's play.
>
> Kolf was a mess as expected.  Not only did I get blank layouts
> for holes, but the putter did not work properly and some holes
> started with water in the middle of the screen and my ball in it!
>
> I hope something is being done on kde-core-devel about the
> Kolf situation.  Where I come from (professionally, before I
> retired), the order of priority, from highest to lowest, was:
>
>    1. Preserve functionality and reliability for end users.
>    2. Preserve stability, functionality and reliability of supporting
>        software for application programmers.
>    3. Upgrade to the latest supporting software, but only after
>        extensive regression testing.
>
> These rules were based on the greatest good of the greatest
> number ... N users > N application programmers > N system
> programmers.
>
> In the present case, we would NOT abandon Kolf.
>
> Rather we would abandon Qt 4.5 for now (i.e. hold it over till
> KDE 4.4).

Sadly it seems its a issue that's being ignored.

Albert

>
> All the best, Ian W.
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