https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53828
--- Comment #7 from MR.LAU ookay1980@yahoo.com.hk --- 30 Years ago when LINUX first came out, I did the MAKE and BUILD thing to try LINUX. Eventually WINDOWS proved to be much easier to use and I quit doing LINUX.
Now WINDOWS is very intrusive. The forced update drives me nuts. Then I find LINUX MINT easy to use and I am happy with it. And I tried to move my WIN apps to LINUX under WINE.
I encounter too many problems and I know I have to stay with WINDOWS. WINE is probably good for GAMES. But when I have to do switching from WORD and FOXPRO and back and forth. I don't think WINE will do it.
Then of course I was hoping for miracle. I find problems and I hope WINE will fix it.
Looks like the WINE team is not even interested in looking at the problem and just ask me to spend a lot of time going thru the MAKE and BUILD thing with the DEVELOPMENT release. Just to report a bug?
And looks like you have decided to not to provide BINARY package and ask the general user community to go through that torture just to try it.
May you enjoy your indulgence in this: "The link provided is used by plenty of users and works fine. If you need help figuring out how to get an updated wine package, plea use the wine forums."
I gone through the forums and I don't find it helpful.
And you believed plenty of users are happy with this MAKE and BUILD thing. That is good for you as none of them report any problem because no one ever try it.
I will just do Virtual Machines. They work fine, although slow. And I thought running directly under LINUX with WINE will give better performance.
Maybe a few years later, you might finally release a BINARY package and I will try it again. I cannot afford to spent a huge amount of time just to report a bug without much expectation that it will be fixed.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!