http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8854
--- Comment #85 from Claudio sick_soul@yahoo.it 2013-03-13 14:52:29 CDT --- (In reply to comment #81)
(In reply to comment #80)
Created attachment 40584 [details] Patch reverts code to earlier, working version
This works for me with Morrowind; please could other users test.
When is this going upstream? :)
Any day now.
This projects' approach to regressions is ridiculous.
First the app works fine.
Then someone decides to rewrite something in the Name of Progress(tm).
The rewrite utterly breaks the applications. The actual reason why wine exists at all.
Anyone with some sanity left in his brain at this point would just revert the patch: "sorry guys, we tried to make it better but we failed, we'll try again". Signal the developer that his patch does not work as it breaks the applications, and the developer would go back to the board to figure out how to reach his goals without breaking everything else in the process.
And this, make no mistake, is how it works in less dysfunctional and pathological open source projects, the linux kernel in primis.
But not here. Here patches that restore functionality for the users are vilified, complaints are ignored, and the code remains broken in the hope that eventually the users will go away. Do not worry, they (we) do.
I am disgusted.
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