Hello,
We need more people working on app compatibility! :) Maybe we can choose some apps that are "nearly there" and get people to solve the last few bugs or alternatively make one of the projects "Bring any 3 apps up to Gold status in the appdb".
I've a few app suggestions: Half-Life 1 (+Mods like Counter-Strike) Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Outcast Warcraft III Microsoft Visual Basic Microsoft Visual C++ UltraISO Quicktime player Anno 1602
Most Apps need only minor patches, except the 2 Star Wars games and Warcraft III, which need Installshield to work with builtin dlls. Is there any official Documentation what 'Gold status' means? I understand that the app installs and runs on a fresh wine installation without any config file changes and without installing any apps/libs that come with windows(IE, dcom, ...).
Really not enough Wine hackers these days (IMHO) bash away and fixing popular apps ... we have a lot of infrastructure and janitorial work going on at times, as well as filling out DLLs - all this is important but being able to run apps doubly so!
I have the plan to get this apps to Gold status one day, but up to now I only made sure that there were no regressions and that these apps keep running as they did with the past wine versions. Once an app reaches Gold status, the biggest problem is to make sure that there are no regressions.
I'll to check Googles "Summer of Code", it looks interesting to me :-)
Stefan