> For example, if DirectX is broken for 3 consecutive releases, I would expect > the people doing the release to label the old 'working' version and branch > from there if any bugs fixes are needed. Things in wine break all the time, users know it and are used to it, if d3d8 breaks for 3 releases, people will just use an old version until things are fixed. Many people stayed at wine-20031212 for months because of regressions that weren't fixed for a few months, but people just kept wine-20031212 and were happy. With alpha software this is quite normal.
Ivan.