On Wed, 16 May 2012 14:14:30 +0400 Alexey Loukianov mooroon2@mail.ru wrote:
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How should we treat situations like that? From user PoV it's "Platinum" - app is working out of the box. From real side of things - it is "Gold", as native dll override is required for app to function - Wine's stubbed xaudio2 implementation is obviously not enough for game to work.
If the user didn't have to manually do anything, it should be rated platinum.
P.S. Aside from that, I want to once again bring up the discussion on extending AppDB so more detailed test reports would be possible. IMO it might be reasonable to add to AppDB test report form is an ability to specify whether the version used was "vanilla" or "patched with some out-of-tree patches" one. For most reporters sane default would be "vanilla", while at some circumstances most of the test reports would come for "patched" version: good examples are SW:KOTR, WoT, D3 and many other games that require out-of-tree patches to function best under Wine.
Ratings should be based on unpatched Wine. Users can mention in the extra comments section that patching Wine will fix a particular problem.