http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082
--- Comment #110 from Claudio sick_soul@yahoo.it 2013-03-15 02:40:54 CDT ---
As to the Wine development and the question on why a 9 year old bug (!) is marked as NEW: It appears Wine is dead. No matter what they claim, action speak more than words. Does anyone know of a Wine fork by someone who actually gives a fuck?
Johannes
wine is not dead, but the project is run in a way that does not put priority in actually getting applications to run and continue running for the users. The goals of us users and of most of the developers are just not aligned.
My wild guess is that since most of the project is in the hands of a company that makes money out of "last mile" support, it would make little commercial sense to put effort in prioritizing applications and regressions.
See my little rant at
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8854
I was thinking about forking wine a few times in the past, since I had to keep patching it in multiple areas to get my stuff working, and I have recognized the project as dysfunctional a long time ago.
However it is a huge task, one that would absorb most of the energies of anyone attempting it, and one that requires multiple talented people for different areas (3D graphics in particular but there are many other complex areas).
It seems more realistic to keep stacking, updating and rebasing those out of tree patches, until someone actually does fork wine, but I doubt it will happen, even more because the project becomes less and less important every day, as the importance of the windows PC wanes.
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