http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6936
--- Comment #52 from Manoa monohouse@gmail.com 2008-11-03 16:55:54 --- and btw, I do not believe that emule (especially all it's mods) is replaceable, by for example amule, amule can simply not compare, it has nothing even close to what emule is, and most certainly not even close to it's mods, it's like comparing emule plus to emule/xtreme/pp-edition, they just can't be compared at all.
that being said, I do agree that the edonkey and kademlia networks are not the best thing since DDL, however utorrent works on wine just fine, if you ask me if this little bug should be fixed, i'd say if instead of that someone is going to add DX10 support with the currently slow gui rendering performance in wine, i'd say fix the bug(S) of the program(s) first (not just this one, all programs supported by wine), but if it's the implementation of optimized gui code in wine, then yeah, i'd say no.
but that's only because I have rules, first implementation of core features, then debugging, and only then fancy stuff like DX10, after all the bugs are fixed, but wine development appears to be going in all directions at once, anyway, the devs always know what is important.
considering that emule works 90% and the fact that the bug is workaroundable, I wouldn't consider it a priority, but I do not agree with you that it needs be forgotten, wine should have 100% compatibility sooner or later, as it is trying to achieve it's goals, so I was just pointing out that the bug still exists in the latest version, and I believe this information is useful, whether it will be fixed is an another subject entirely.