On Thu, 2 May 2002, Tony Lambregts wrote:
So this is what I have come up with.
- Installation (total possible 2)
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- Date tested. Verison of wine used
With the proviso that having multiple categories tends to favour "average-looking" results, the system looks good.
I would also include the license under which the software is available. Without wishing to reigniting the wine-license debate :) the license could be one of: "free w/ sourcecode", "free but binary only", "commercial", "Donno, got it off a mate".
Idealy we would be able to look at the AppDB and list all programs that have problems with any of the criteria
Yes.
Also, it would be nice if you could search the db for applications that have a certain range of points (or stars), rather than just >= x, for example to look for all four-star applications.
Probably the most usefull aspect of this is that it gives users and developers a real way of measuring how well wine really is doing and where problems that affect the most programs are.
Hmm, there was always the possibility of this, but I think any half-way reliable estimate would require retesting working apps; or do you assume no regression in functionality?
What do you think?
---- Paul Millar