On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:04:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Very good points. It seems a lot of this has been accepted over the years > on the basis that wine was alpha software and in that context , the past > is the past - get the new release etc. > > It seems that the result is , as you say, regression testing is a PITA and > as a result often gets skipped. The code base has certainly advanced a lot > but every release seems to create as many problems as it solves. > > I managed to get an app working in Feb, luckily I tarballed the whole > .wine installation since I am now unable to reinstall this app under any > version of wine and make it work. > > Wine is now officially beta and this is probably the stage at which some > serious project management has to come into play. > > Maybe someone has to take a week off from coding and review the overall > picture. The core devs have a huge task so it must be made easier for > people like yourself who clearly have the expertise to contribute to get > involved.
We adapt to the upstream packages. We cannot control their changes. Like alsa using "interface" as keyword in their headers. Or glibc changing. Ciao, Marcus