On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Guillaume VanderEst me@gn0me.org wrote:
But in semi-seriousness, I agree completely. Legalities of cracking aside, we're trying to judge if the application works perfectly. Wording regarding cracking should probably be removed from the site as it sets a weird tone, but the RATING of a program should be completely dependent on its working state out of the box.
I have to disagree here. The appdb is where people go to find out about application compatibility, providing some information related to the question "Will I be able to run this app in Wine, and if so how?". If we only based ratings on how well applications work out of the box, a Garbage rating would apply to any app that requires some extra step to run, even if the extra step is grabbing MFC42.dll and putting it in system32, as well as any app that no one has been able to run yet. That's not very useful.
If a DLL isn't supported, or something isn't yet programmed, then that is the curse of working on a project that isn't 1.0 yet. :-)
Not at all. We can expect to see such things happen long after 1.0 is released.