On 9/16/06, Roland Kaeser roli8200@yahoo.de wrote:
Are you a software developer of any kind? This is a professional open source product, and we only allow the cleanest code in our tree. Wine is one of the most impressive pieces of software I've ever had the chance to work on. I, and all the other developers of Wine, do not want hacks in the code base, and am very thankful they are not allowed. If someone really wants an application to work, they can spend time and effort on writing proper fixes for the Wine tree, as we all do.
Yes, I'm a software developer and I know from a uncountable amout of projects that perfect and absolute clean code is IMPOSSIBLE. Its always a calculation between the efforts and the expected results. Yes, You can write absolute (as far as this is generally possible) code but then wine will be arrive version 1.0 in 2020. Just think about the goal, users don't interst the coding quality of the sourcecode, they just want to run their windows apps on linux. I know a lot of people where have no idea about opensource. They just wan't to run their apps. And they wan't do it asap not after waiting 10 years. Look for all the alternate opensource project for properitary software, such as gimp,scribus,inkscape,openoffice,firefox,kdenlive,cinelerra,etc. Soon, the time will come where is no longer need for wine because the opensource apps are much better and more performant than actually the windows apps are. Don't You think wine (version 1.0) should be finished before this time?
Roland
If they start allowing all sort of creepy hacks, the end result won't be Wine getting done faster. If anything, it will become completely unmanageable and require a rewrite. By then, it might be hopelessly broken.
Since you are a developer, why don't you clean codeweaver's hacks and resubmit the code? You are wasting time and effort arguing here that could be better spent writing code.
Stephen