Dan Kegel <dank <at> kegel.com> writes:
When making announcements about Wine 1.0, it's useful to include an objective measure of how well it works for the average app, one that correctly conveys both Wine's promise and its limitations.
Our current appdb stats are:
Platinum 1500 Gold 1763 Silver 1194 Bronze 1071 Garbage 2512
I think it's important to add a note for the user that wine needs a bunch of tweaking.
From the garbage test-results that come in in the appdb, many can be solved so
easily (missing mfc42, msvcp60 and lots of other add-on dlls. Also, since wine started to have it's own gdiplus and d3dx9* dlls, lots of crashes because of unimplemented stuff in these dlls). When users know where to look for, it could avoid a lot of dissappointment i guess