https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42695
Zebediah Figura z.figura12@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever confirmed|0 |1 Summary|Path of Exile: fail to |Path of Exile fails to |start when launching with |start when launching with |dx11 enabled (WIC factory |dx11 enabled with message |failure) |"Failed to create WIC | |factory" | |(CoCreateInstance() called | |in uninitialized apartment) CC| |z.figura12@gmail.com
--- Comment #37 from Zebediah Figura z.figura12@gmail.com --- (In reply to godevilove from comment #36)
Nah, I think it's fine: after all, people don't care about the wine itself, people care about how to run windows programs and I offered a good solution. If winehq staff ignores issue tickets for years (almost 2 years have passed since this ticket got opened and the ticket still has 'UNCONFIRMED' status)
- I don't think they have any moral right to shut people up, that posting
comments with real solutions.
Moral rights aside (and that's a pretty bold argument), clutter in our bug tracker makes it harder to read and find useful information, and as such is a good way to encourage developers not to fix bugs.
Complaining is also a good way to do that.
Unconfirmed/confirmed distinction is basically meaningless as far as I'm concerned, but, since you seem to care, confirming.
Anyway, it turns out this bug has been open for almost two years because it's actually really hard to figure out the correct solution. That doesn't mean that people haven't been trying; I can personally attest to that.