On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
James McKenzie wrote:
Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
And as long as it's up and running, how about a look forward at the 1.4 release plans?
Would be nice to know what has priority for this release. I would love to see the DIB Engine be the 'deal maker'.
Ain't gonna happen. Too hard, not enough manpower going into it.
A more realistic goal held over from 1.2 might be DX10 support. There are several people chugging away, getting bits and pieces of that committed.
I proposed a few smaller goals for 1.4 at http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleaseCriteria :
Bug 6971, the mouse problem affecting many FPS-style games, IIRC Alexandre says it would take him four weeks to clean up the XInput2 patches
AcceptEx (bug 280) - needed for Warcraft III and a number of other games (Mike Kaplinskiy's real close on this, so maybe it doesn't even bear mentioning as a 1.4 goal)
Antialiasing/Multisampling (Roderick's got a patch that needs a few weeks of cleanup)
I like the looks of this list, from a gaming point of view. An increasingly important missing feature is basic GFWL support (depends .net 3.5sp1) which I hear is getting there slowly. Would be nice to have by 1.4.
Out of interest why are applications not considered release goals? I'm sure there is a very good reason I'd just like to know it. Just seems to me that it would be a good idea to pick a handful of very popular, but mostly ignored, applications and focus on having them work well by release (CS5 is an example I can think of immediately).
Is there a time frame for 1.4? 1 year, 2 years, sooner?