On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:04:30PM +0200, wino@piments.com wrote:
Very good points. It seems a lot of this has been accepted over the years on the basis that wine was alpha software and in that context , the past is the past - get the new release etc.
It seems that the result is , as you say, regression testing is a PITA and as a result often gets skipped. The code base has certainly advanced a lot but every release seems to create as many problems as it solves.
I managed to get an app working in Feb, luckily I tarballed the whole .wine installation since I am now unable to reinstall this app under any version of wine and make it work.
Wine is now officially beta and this is probably the stage at which some serious project management has to come into play.
Maybe someone has to take a week off from coding and review the overall picture. The core devs have a huge task so it must be made easier for people like yourself who clearly have the expertise to contribute to get involved.
We adapt to the upstream packages. We cannot control their changes.
Like alsa using "interface" as keyword in their headers. Or glibc changing.
Ciao, Marcus