http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2398
------- Additional Comments From phil@ldex.terica.net 2005-03-10 14:54 ------- James, believe me that I understood what you were saying and I am aware of the shortage of manpower. I'm not (hopefully) ranting. I suppose my key reasoning in this is :
You have a shortage of manpower, but breaking things will create additional work. Breakage is sometimes required, but contributors perhaps need to reduce the impact of major changes by allowing the older system to be used for a while whereever possible. This 'safety net' approach would probably ease the load on contributors until such time as fixes are available for the new code and also allow users to continue to use the latest and greatest Wine releases.
I remain a (slightly frustrated, I admit) Wine fan. I admire the work that has gone into it, but issues like this that are unfixed for as long as this can dampen the enthusiasm a little from time to time ;)
Phil.
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