Re: [Gnash-dev] Complilation errors

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:11:14PM +0200, Roman B. wrote:

> Incredibly, but it is a fact. It has built!

Great.
Could you repeat that on https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?33223
so we close the ticket ? :)

> Now I can start hacking on it.
> I'm basically interested in features I want:
> 1. playback of mp3 in google mail
> 2. playback on the russian www.vkontakte.ru
> 
> They do not work with gnash at the moment. Without it I cannot move to
> gnash completely.
> 
> Also, how do you guys organize your work? which IDE? how do you debug?
> I would be glad if can share your experience.

Personally I use the unix shell and the vi editor,
and debug with log_debug, gdb and valgrind.

First thing we do when willing to add some new functionality
or fix a bug is we produce an automated testcase for it, so
to understand every little detail about _how_ should things
behave. It's very important, and the test will remain as a
regression test.

The best tests are those that don't even need human interaction,
but that's not always possible (ie: if you're testing human interaction).
Standalone tests print PASSED/FAILED traces when run, so that the
existing framework can intercept those traces and make nice reports.

There's some informations about the framework here:
http://wiki.gnashdev.org/TestingFramework

Feel free to ask more questions as you move forward.

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