On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 10:29:55 -0400 David Cary Hart <fedora tqmcube com> wrote: > At the risk of straying OT; > > IMO, the problem with wine is that it inexplicably deteriorates more > with each new build. For example, the 20050111 version works splendidly > with wine-tools for a flawless IE6/WMP installation while anything newer > barfs - badly. Indeed, IIRC, CrossoverOffice is built on a year old > version of wine and Sidenet requires a vintage version as well. I get our point and I know from personal experience that what you say is true. This has even been a discussed by the wine developers and as a result of this there development will go from alpha to beta cycle (will be 0.9.0?!) very soon (taken I understand them correctly ;) ) with all the usability improvement and without to much breakage between releases. So as your point may be valid atm it will change in the near future. > I'm sure that there must be a better forum to move this discussion to. > The point is, why maintain wine for extras when the most current version > doesn't seem to do very much? Because I think many users would benefit from having wine in extras and even if only a few report bugs that already is help to make wine a better software for the rest (maybe I should become a ad person ;) ). Haven't you ever tried to convince your friends to switch from windows to linux? I am sure you have and while some may like it without any complaint I have seen many of my friends switch back to windows because they just needed that special piece of software that would only run on windows. Some day down the road I would like to tell them: Sure just go ahead... linux does know how to run it and there even is a fe package for it... Just my to _euro_ cents... - Andreas -- Andreas Bierfert | http://awbsworld.de | GPG: C58CF1CB andreas bierfert lowlatency de | http://lowlatency.de | signed/encrypted phone: +49 2402 102373 | cell: +49 172 9789968 | mail preferred
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