On 6/9/06, James Hawkins truiken@gmail.com wrote:
If you is didn't understand, lots of bugs & problems that you raise are not as critical as you think they are.
I don't really agree, but assuming that were true, this is an open source project. You work on things you want to work on, fix bugs you want to fix. Bugs are bugs, and no matter how small or irrelevant they are to you, we shouldn't ignore them, and if they are small, then we should be fixing them quicker.
I do lots of random testing (e.g. by using Firefox on Wine) to try to understand what it's like to really rely on Wine, and as a result, I generate lots of bug reports that might seem odd to the casual observer.
It may have been hard to tell from my post, but I installed this tool on a lark, and my post was meant to be tongue-in-cheeck. The bug report is real; something's funky with MSI. The app is obviously low priority, but I thought it was better to file it rather than just laugh.
If you want to see the bugs I consider high priority, have a look at http://wiki.winehq.org/DanKegel My top five app list is
* Visual Basic 6 and Visual C++ 6 (to make it easier for Windows ISVs to debug their code on Wine)
* SPSS11 and Keeptool-Hora (because Munich chose those as apps to test under Wine for their Limux linux desktop conversion project)
* iSBEM (http://www.ncm.bre.co.uk; uses Access 2000; the UK gov't requires building contractors to use this software, and it would be great PR for the Wine community to get this working well, I think.)
Now how do you feel about my priorities? - Dan