On 11/12/06, Joseph Garvin k04jg02@kzoo.edu wrote:
Aaron Slunt wrote:
Wine is still beta software, it has never been officially released, therefore you have to expect these sorts of things.
I think that misses the point. Users expect software to improve between releases, not totally break. It's pretty obvious that there is no one checking to make sure common apps work before rolling the release tarballs. Granted, sometimes it's necessary for parts of wine to be totally restructured in order to do things correctly and avoiding regressions in this case is unavoidable, but as far as I'm aware from lurking on wine-patches there weren't any great restructurings of how OpenGL worked in 0.9.25. To be honest it doesn't feel like there has been a significant move towards preventing regressions since 0.9.0, which I thought was the point of that release, although I may misunderstand.
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?
I don't see the point in this. It's not officially released software, so why put resources in to test apps on non-official software?
If something breaks in the latest release, go back to the one before that that was working, and file a bug in bugzilla about the regressions.
If there isn't a problem, then properly testing beta software will just waste time. If there is a problem, then bugzilla is just as effective as testing.