http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486
------- Additional Comments From saulius.krasuckas@elst.vtu.lt 2004-09-09 03:14 ------- Some offtopic (excuse me):
Jarto, a new patches arrives every day and amount of people interested in *fixing the root* of the bug would decrease, thus making bug getting buried deeper and deeper.
IMHO many people consider this as a harm to future life of Wine. There is even joke story about it:
* The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh day * the programmer rested. We've been trying to debug the *&^%$#@ thing ever * since. * * Moral: design before you implement.
You wrote:
- Accept Michael's patch
- Let's find out what the patch breaks
The suggestion about some investigation of what gets broken is quite interesting. It would shed some light on the amount of stuff got broken. Only this the area of action should not belong to official Wine.
Its unclear for me: why do you need the patch to be in official Wine tree? Does something restrict you from applying it by your hand and making your own Wine package for your favourite distro?
Can you make this to be a separate project, call it Wine-smoof, for example? IMHO this is the route by which both the CrossOver and Transgaming went. And it would attract lots of advanced users which are too hot to stay on wait for one year more. I would join it if it stays uncommercial.
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