On 5/7/11 3:52 AM, Roland Kaeser wrote:
Hello
Please take the following not personal but the huge pent-up frustration constrains me to say a few words.
I've just tested one of my "longest waiting" apps to get working on linux: CorelDraw X3/X4. And I had to see that it fails already with the same errors. I tooke a short look into the bug database to see all the related bugs:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11687 open (not even confirmed) since more than 3 years http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14123 open since 2008-06-25 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3599 open (new) since 2005-10-15 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3611 open (new) since 2005-10-17
I know we had this discussion already a lot of times but after six acc.
Many bug fixes depend on fixing a six year old + bug (421). However, if you feel so strongly, then maybe YOU can take a stab at trying to fix a bug. It is NOT easy (6724 is one bug that I'm working on and it has been around for four+ years.)
Also, not all developers are working on fixing and improving DirectX. Some are working on code improvements and long overdue code cleanups.
James McKenzie