Alex Bradbury wrote:
Do correct me if I'm wrong here, but users who don't want regressions in their favourite apps/games should be using the stable release.
There's some chicken and egg problem. 1. Users find bugs in the stable release. 2. Should they ever report a bug, they'll be asked whether the "unstable" version is still affected, hence: => "nice" users (these who report bugs) end up using the "unstable" version, which they may not have wanted to run originally.
3. Furthermore, these users are expected to re-check the "unstable" version from time to time.
Perhaps the Wine Wiki should explain extremely well how people can keep 2 versions of Wine side by side, esp. when using distros. - one to play games; - another to play with bug reports.
Then one should explain very well why these people should invest time to maintain 2 versions of Wine.
Probably the Wine bugzilla should explain why users are expected to do all this. I guess it's based on the number of users: with so many users, you can't expect the few devs to fill holes in bug reports. The users need do more work than when filing a bug on a project with few users where the devs may spend a lot of time on each individual bug report. If this were explained, perhaps more people would be willing to help (instead of writing a short note to the forum).
Well, maybe the Debian way is excellent: ideally, Debian "stable" would contain a particular release of Wine which has proven very good overall (not necessary 1.2.x). For instance, on the Mac with nVidia, 1.1.24(!) is still an excellent choice.
Regards, Jörg Höhle