Stable release builds with fixme output (Wine 20050310 debian sarge/testing)
Hello, I typically launch applications using wine from the terminal, I get pages of these fixme debug messages. I wonder if there is a reason these fixme "harmless" messages are being displayed? IMHO stable releases should only output err messages, thus not displaying fixme or warnings. I wonder if this has been considered already? fixme:powermgnt:SetThreadExecutionState (0x2): stub, harmless. fixme:powermgnt:SetThreadExecutionState (0x2): stub, harmless. fixme:powermgnt:SetThreadExecutionState (0x2): stub, harmless. fixme:powermgnt:SetThreadExecutionState (0x2): stub, harmless. fixme:powermgnt:SetThreadExecutionState (0x2): stub, harmless. I am not on this list, please include my email address in any replies. Kind regards JG -- Homepage: http://jguk.org/ Blog: http://jguk.org/blog.rss Radio: http://jguk.org/#radio
On 5/7/05, J. Grant <jg(a)jguk.org> wrote:
I typically launch applications using wine from the terminal, I get pages of these fixme debug messages. I wonder if there is a reason these fixme "harmless" messages are being displayed? IMHO stable releases should only output err messages, thus not displaying fixme or warnings. I wonder if this has been considered already?
From ANNOUNCE:
"This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work correctly." And from BUGS: "Wine is still considered alpha software and is still incomplete." There are no stable wine releases yet. Paul
On 07/05/05 16:15, Paul van Schayck wrote:
On 5/7/05, J. Grant <jg(a)jguk.org> wrote:
I typically launch applications using wine from the terminal, I get pages of these fixme debug messages. I wonder if there is a reason these fixme "harmless" messages are being displayed? IMHO stable releases should only output err messages, thus not displaying fixme or warnings. I wonder if this has been considered already?
From ANNOUNCE:
"This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work correctly."
People choose to use whatever there is because there is no other choice, in these circumstances it would be more suitable to release a version suitable for users which will mean you get bug reports.
And from BUGS:
"Wine is still considered alpha software and is still incomplete."
There are no stable wine releases yet.
However, as people have been using it for years, and giving feedback and bug reports it would be better to accept there will be interim releases. For those releases they should not be development builds. Please include my email address in replies. Kind regards JG -- Homepage: http://jguk.org/ Blog: http://jguk.org/blog.rss Radio: http://jguk.org/#radio
On 05/07/2005 05:55:35 PM, J. Grant wrote:
On 07/05/05 16:15, Paul van Schayck wrote:
On 5/7/05, J. Grant <jg(a)jguk.org> wrote:
I typically launch applications using wine from the terminal, I get pages of these fixme debug messages. I wonder if there is a reason these fixme "harmless" messages are being displayed? IMHO stable releases should only output err messages, thus not displaying fixme or warnings. I wonder if this has been considered already?
Not all fixme's are harmless. Most of them are actually potentially hazardous - most of the time they indicate missing features. I also don't see how supressing fixme's has something to do with "stable" releases anyway - a "stable" release should probably immediatly terminate the process on any fixme since continuing execution might lead to instability. And such a "stable" wine release would be pretty useless right now.
"This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work correctly." People choose to use whatever there is because there is no other choice, in these circumstances it would be more suitable to release a version suitable for users which will mean you get bug reports.
Bug reports without any hint what actually went wrong. The user's might maybe even get the idea that the application is buggy and not wine. -flx
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