Re: Re: Making people aware about appdb and outdated Wine versions.

[killertux killertux]

OK, if not popup then fixme or someting like if there is problems they 
can go
to Wine AppDB to get some compatibility help.
> > --SNIP--
> > Second: Old version of Wine are still quite used because of package
> > managers just offers "stable" Wine versions over the "unstable"

ones so I would like
> > to see another popup or warning in winecfg that informs user that

their Wine is
> > getting old... so after specific number of days(from release of

Wine version X)
> > counter gives some warnings about old Wine version.
>
> Having a popup (or anything that requires user interaction) could get
> really irritating - there are situations where people would use an
> older version of wine on purpose. Like if a large organization uses

it
> to run one specific app, and has a specific version that works
> perfectly, they might not have any reason to update.
>
> How about a fixme when wine is run, informing them that the version
> they are running was released X long ago, and that if they have any
> issues they should try a newer version?
>
> It'd be nice, too, if people then reported bugs with that on the top
> of the output - it could save a lot of work chasing down already-

fixed
> issues.
>
> --Matt

Making people aware about appdb and outdated Wine versions.

[Tom Wickline]

On 9/10/06, killertux killertux  wrote:
> OK, if not popup then fixme or someting like if there is problems they
> can go
> to Wine AppDB to get some compatibility help.

If they have any common sense about them they will see that the
application database is advertised on the winehq front page and go
there on there own. You get out of Wine what you put into it!

As for people contributing to third party forum's and wiki's, that is
a double edged sword its nice that they contribute there findings so
others can play a game or use a app. I personally don't feel we should
discourage people from posting there findings to other sites.

But at the same time it would be nice if they contributed that
information to our wiki or application database.

Making people aware about appdb and outdated Wine versions.

[Matt Finnicum]

On 9/10/06, Tom Wickline  wrote:
> If they have any common sense about them they will see that the
> application database is advertised on the winehq front page and go
> there on there own. You get out of Wine what you put into it!

Most users, as far as I can tell, never goto winehq. They get wine
from their distro's package manager, and then when it breaks head to
their distro's support / community.
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> As for people contributing to third party forum's and wiki's, that is
> a double edged sword its nice that they contribute there findings so
> others can play a game or use a app. I personally don't feel we should
> discourage people from posting there findings to other sites.
>
> But at the same time it would be nice if they contributed that
> information to our wiki or application database.