Good Morning Guys!
Been an interesting year so far - between dealing with weather and politicians (I'm not quite sure which was worse, as neither are predictable) I had a rather busy January.
I have looked in on this thread from time to time in the interim, and I commend Dave, Lars, Jochen, Bitworks and Silvan, and the others who have been trying to press all this forward.
The development types have done a lot of yeomans work - the question now is how can we user types help in alpha and beta testing of whats been done? Thats where we need some input.
As I see it we're at the state where the testers need some detail from the developers on:
1) What needs to be installed to do the testing?
2) How do we do it? (YUM/RPM, downloading certain files, how to install, etc.)
3) What tests do you want run, and what info needs to be generated, and how?
4) What equipment do you want tested (joysticks? gamepads? other USB items like cameras of other USB devices found?)
5) Generally, how do you want the tests run?
6) What do you want us to find out at this stage (and hopefully going forward)
I know some testing has been done with "hidapitester" (don't know where that was pulled from or who created it), but whatever tools we need to test need a little explanation as to how they work and what to do. If you want testing in a games environment, I think we need to know what needs to be set up, possibly in CONFIG.SYS or other places in addition to adding the DLL libraries as well as which OS environment do you wanted it tested in (currently I'm thinking DOS under ArcaOS or OS/2, or native ARCAOS or OS/2).
As mentioned , I'm not a developer, but I can help and am volunteering in compiling 1) to 5) into a post which summarizes how we do this - I have followed this thread, but as Martin has inferred, its difficult to follow, and I don't think I could get all the relevant items together coherently without some guidance by the guys who have been doing the modifications and programming, as to what needs to be put down in writing to make this work.
So if you can post some of the steps here I will attempt to put it all together (or to email me privately - I have no email on OS2World).
Perhaps, Martin, if your listening in, and if I can put together something useful, we can get it up as a development or testing Wiki to give people something to reference on a single page, instead of users trying to find the post (or multiple posts) that has the info throughout the thread
Just wanted to contribute to this in the way I am skilled at - namely methods engineering. I expect if we have sufficient people testing (including me), there will be changes needed as we go along - but at least we have a structured way to move forward.
Thoughts on this anyone? And Best!
Mark