Torsdag 10 mai 2007 18:46, skrev Scott Ritchie:
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:22 +0200, Kai Blin wrote:
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 05:34, Dan Kegel wrote:
Hey, that's only an hour away, maybe I / Lei / Nigel can drop by.
But what's the "itchy /etc/hosts bug"? Is that http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7929 ?
I would assume so. I don't know if telling them is going to fix anything, though. For new games, I hope they're not using gethostbyname(gethostname()) anyway. For the other issues that are hitting us with that bug, all seem to be valid winsock programming. I'd rather have someone talk to them about better overall wine compatibility.
Does anyone have statistics we can present about how many Wine users playing Blizzard games there are out there?
The closest thing I've ever seen was a steam-based hardware survey Valve released a couple of years ago. Even then, there were tens of thousands of Wine users playing Steam games. With Wine more popular now and World of Warcraft often working better than in Windows, it seems pretty reasonable that there would be even more Wine-based WoW players.
Perhaps we could ask Blizzard to just include a simple test for Wine's registry key in their software and then keep statistics on it.
Blizzard is at least co-operating with TransGaming on World of Warcraft, so they are at least aware that there are Linux users out there. :)
Perhaps someone could act as a representative for CodeWeavers? It might make Blizzard more attentive. I can try to get some info from TransGaming about the co-operation, if anyone thinks it would be useful.
Regards,
Alexander N. Sørnes
Thanks, Scott Ritchie