On 6/22/06, James Hawkins truiken@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/22/06, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
I just looked, and there aren't *that* many msi and ole bugs reported in bugzilla.
Would it be unreasonable to set a goal of having all msi and ole bugs fixed for wine-1.0 ?
Just to clarify that last statement, you mean all reported msi and ole bugs?
Yep. Can't fix the unreported ones...
My opinion is that this is a reasonable goal for 1.0, and a necessary goal at that. When we say, "1.0 is out!" new users should at least be able to try their software in wine, which requires the installers to work. At this point, at least with msi, fixing the bugs isn't requiring major infrastructure change, just changing the behavior of a certain feature (in most cases).
Well, it turns out that fixing all reported install bugs at the moment does require some interesting work: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4632 requires msi to support sql joins http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5322 needs a performance registry entry http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5540 requires the msi service! So perhaps some of those could be postponed to after 1.0.
But the rest -- the "easy" ones (hah) -- we ought to do. In particular, it'd be great to support widely-used apps like Lotus Notes, whose installer we can't handle well at all right now: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5595
All in favor of getting the Lotus Notes 6.5.x installer working for Wine 1.0, raise your hands... - Dan