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 >