On 11/12/06, Joseph Garvin k04jg02@kzoo.edu wrote:
Why would it be so difficult to have someone to pick a couple of common apps, like winzip, word, and warcraft3, and make sure they still function before every release?
Here's a common problem. I tested Warcraft 3 with 0.9.25 from compile, new wine prefix, game install, patch, start, battle.net all this weekend and it worked fine. Not everyone receives the same experience. I'm the maintainer so I do know when it regresses for me and usually I fix it right then because I can. And I have been able to keep track the git almost daily so problems with Warcraft 3 have actually remained minimal (er I would say non-existant ... but). I cannot fix other problems unless I receive proper reports. I have no idea what Mirek's problem is and he definately has not reported it the proper way.
I do know of an open bug where there is a weird packaging/build problem or nvidia+X.org 7.1 problem that prevents Warcraft 3 from starting on ubuntu 6.10. So I actually downloaded it installed the distro on my hard drive, which is why I did the above test with Warcraft 3. So when I did all that just to research a problem, it simply worked fine on my install of ubuntu. So I lack enough information to progress on it. Could this be Mirek's problem -- possibly. Should we have held up 0.9.25 for a rather obscure problem? Heck no. Even more reason, most people don't test tree snapshots, so the only way we know of some problems is when we make a release, and that's probably why we have releases every two weeks; so that Wine gets widespread testing.
Jesse