Hi john

where can I find the list of topics to require tests?

On 11 mars 06, at 00:20, John M McIntosh wrote:

> I had hoped to push the 3.8.11b2 universal out, but we needed just  
> one more test, then I decided to recompile all the plugins. Because  
> of the platform change I'm altering how plugins are loaded, in  
> 3.8.11b2 forward we will load them from the application resource  
> folder and ignore other locations unless we cannot find them in the  
> resources folder.  This is because non-universal plugins aren't run  
> under rosetta and what you get back is the plugin failed to load,  
> which is very confusing.
>
> That is taking awhile to confirm and test, really the issue is that  
> we need a proper test suite to confirm the VM platform specific  
> code works as expected. For
> example although we've had people poke at the universal VM for a  
> few weeks now, no-one realized the sound plugin didn't actually  
> work right because
> of endianess issues, or that type and creator codes on files are  
> being reversed because Apple stores that meta data in Big endian  
> form only.
>
> One thing that would be good are a few folks that would be willing  
> to run down a spreadsheet of
> functionality and make SUnits to check the suggested results, not  
> only would this ensure the macintel
> Vm is healthily it could be used to cross check answers from other  
> VM implementations (aka windows/unix/Risc/PDA?)
>
> So, hopefully in a few days we should have a VM available, til then  
> be patient.
>
>
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