From: "Mike McCormack" mike@codeweavers.com
Wouldn't be much motivation for somebody to come up with a real fix if there was already a half-baked fix in Wine already, would there?
But neither does the keep-it-borken approach work, does it? :) Problem is that the breakage is not large enough to motivate people. I think we have to come to terms with the fact that Wine is big, and doing things right is not always an option.
I seems to me that we'd be better off to have a working but not-so-perfect solution, rather than wait for years to have the perfect one.
Of course, I agree that you can not merge any solution in, that road leads to madness. But we have to balance that with the fact that we have to be useful by offering the functionality that people need or want.
Otherwise wine will become irrelevant before it becomes useful. And that would be a shame.