1.0 Bugs - Microsoft Office 2003

[EA Durbin]

I was able to get around bug 9023 with a patch applied to the appdb and I did some further testing in Office 2003 today. Initially I'm prompted to activate my copy of microsoft office 2003, and both means of activating the application are broken in wine due to bugs 9943 and 9944. Then I tried to open VBA inside of Office and was prompted with a dialog stating unable to open macro storage(bug 8795). The only real reason I use Microsoft Office over Open Office is the need for VBA integration.

I think we should add these bugs to the 1.0 target

9943
9944
8795

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[Dan Kegel]

On 10/7/07, EA Durbin  wrote:
> I was able to get around bug 9023 with a patch applied to the appdb

I see you attached the patch to bug 9023, thanks.
> and I
> did some further testing in Office 2003 today. Initially I'm prompted to
> activate my copy of microsoft office 2003, and both means of activating the
> application are broken in wine due to bugs 9943 and 9944. Then I tried to
> open VBA inside of Office and was prompted with a dialog stating unable to
> open macro storage(bug 8795). The only real reason I use Microsoft Office
> over Open Office is the need for VBA integration.
>
> I think we should add these bugs to the 1.0 target

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8795
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9023
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9943
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9944

I'm not opposed, but perhaps we should be clear.
Do we want to add Microsoft Word 2003 to the "must have" apps list for 1.0?
It might delay the release.
- Dan

[Francois Gouget]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Dan Kegel wrote:
[...]
> Do we want to add Microsoft Word 2003 to the "must have" apps list for 1.0?
> It might delay the release.

I think the only applications which should block Wine releases should be 
ones which are freely downloadable and for which automated tests exist 
(with cxtest, yawt or something). The rational is that everyone should 
be able to run the tests and confirm that the 'must have' applications 
do work. But then I might be biased...

[Dan Kegel]

On 10/12/07, Francois Gouget  wrote:
> I think the only applications which should block Wine releases should be
> ones which are freely downloadable and for which automated tests exist
> (with cxtest, yawt or something). The rational is that everyone should
> be able to run the tests and confirm that the 'must have' applications
> do work. But then I might be biased...

I tend to agree.   Automated tests using
stable, freely downloadable apps  are the way to go.
I've edited http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleaseCriteria
to reflect this.
The apps could be full, trial, or viewer apps, from major
vendors like Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Adobe, and Microsoft.
- Dan