On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:55, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org wrote:
On 09/28/2011 05:57 AM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
On 09/28/2011 04:18 AM, Alex Bradbury wrote:
Do correct me if I'm wrong here, but users who don't want regressions in their favourite apps/games should be using the stable release. It doesn't seem fair to complain about regressions being ignored unless 1.4 releases with a significant number of them.
If Wine would release stable versions every 3-4 months sure. But last stable version released on April 8. And only contains small number of fixes since wine-1.2 which was released on July 16.
Many programs don't work with wine-1.2.3 for number of reasons. Besides, everywhere (forum, bugzilla, irc) we tell users to upgrade to latest development version, because we not going to fix any bugs in old "stable" versions.
There's a reason I've consistently been advocating for more frequent, or even regular, stable releases. We don't need fancy big features to justify a release, mere apps working is enough.
There's no reason you (as a package manager) couldn't choose a particular development release and mark it as stable in your distribution. E.g., Fedora does this, currently has wine 1.3.21, unless you enable updates-testing, which has 1.3.29.
In any case, I think this topic is best reserved for discussion at Wineconf, especially since it's not that far away ;).