WinBUGS breaks under Wine > 1.1.12

[sconti555]

Dear Wine-friends,

I was wondering if any of you would have a clue around why WinBUGS, a nifty Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler widely used in Bayesian statistical modelling, no longer works when run through any version of Wine newer than 1.1.12.

I have encountered this issue of my machines at home (which runs on Zenwalk 6.0) and work (Mandriva 2008.1) a while ago, but only reported it now as I kept on hoping for the issue to be resolved. Curiously enough OpenBUGS, an open-source version of WinBUGS, runs without a hitch under any version of Wine.

Should I report this as a (win)bug? With many thanks in advance.

[David Gerard]

2009/4/2 sconti555 <[email protected]>:

I was wondering if any of you would have a clue around why WinBUGS (http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/), a nifty Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler widely used in Bayesian statistical modelling, no longer works when run through any version of WINE newer than 1.1.12.
I have encountered this issue of my machines at home (which runs on Zenwalk 6.0) and work (Mandriva 2008.1) a while ago, but only reported it now as I kept on hoping for the issue to be resolved.  Curiously enough OpenBUGS (http://www.math.helsinki.fi/openbugs/), an open-source version of WinBUGS, runs without a hitch under any version of WINE.
Should I report this as a (win)bug?  With many thanks in advance.

You should indeed - real app, used to run, doesn't run now, a regression.

Is the binary freeware (if not open source)? Then others can test as well.

Either way, you would provide the best possible bug reporting by doing
a regression test on Wine. This is laborious, but not complicated if
you're OK at the command line

http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

This will let you zero in very effectively on the precise commit that
broke the application.


- d.

[austin987]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, sconti555 <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear Wine-friends,

I was wondering if any of you would have a clue around why WinBUGS (http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/), a nifty Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler widely used in Bayesian statistical modelling, no longer works when run through any version of WINE newer than 1.1.12.

I have encountered this issue of my machines at home (which runs on Zenwalk 6.0) and work (Mandriva 2008.1) a while ago, but only reported it now as I kept on hoping for the issue to be resolved.  Curiously enough OpenBUGS (http://www.math.helsinki.fi/openbugs/), an open-source version of WinBUGS, runs without a hitch under any version of WINE.

Should I report this as a (win)bug?  With many thanks in advance.

You'll need to run a regression test to found what broke it:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

then file a bug:
http://bugs.winehq.org/

--
-Austin

[sconti555]

You'll need to run a regression test to found what broke it:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

then file a bug:
http://bugs.winehq.org/

Dear David Gerard and austin987, thanks to you both for your prompt and supportive replies. I'll take a peek into 'regression testing' (a concept unheard to me to date); hopefully this will help Wine developers.