On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:03:46PM -0600, James Hawkins wrote:
If developers working on projects such as Wine-Doors contributed to Wine, then the bugs would be fixed even faster.
I think that this is not necessarily (always) true, probably not even most of the time.
Does a developer of e.g. Wine-Doors even has the skill to fix these bugs? It's at least not the same skill set. (I think one can say that some good amount of Wine bugs are harder to fix than coding something like Wine-Doors.)
See another mail by me in this thread, sent somewhat earlier, for some provisions that if followed would make something like Wine-Doors IMHO useful to wine (not only for users but also for developers). However if those provisions are not met, it would probably only result in another winetools and I don't want that either.
Do you think that with those provisions it would still not help wine?
I think it's somewhat similar to: "If all the work on coding those debuggers is spend on writing proper code, we would get bug free much sooner." It's the "work on tools for project" vs "work on project" trade-off.
Jan