I like the deadline idea, but I do think they've got this already, just not in terms of working applications, but subsystems.
For the *weekly* application list, who is going to compile it? Wine is not Microsoft, therefore they do not have access to something along the lines of Microsoft's Compatibility Lab (and I think not even Microsoft itself could release this weekly list). Furthermore, applications have to be legally purchased to be tested, as far as I know. I'm not a [wine]developer, but I think you have absolutely no idea of the amount of effort you are talking about. There is Wine Application Database. I've contributed one entry myself. Not much, I know, but at least it is a start. Stephen On 9/16/06, Roland Kaeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You want stable software, don't you? Yes but not for the price of developing 10 years for a software. >And break other Applications. Not urgently Hey guys can't anybody see the reason? The wine project (or the finish of itself) could bring linux the breakthrough. I know a lot of people who asks as first question: Is this or the other app working on linux? Then I will think about a migration. Yes, faster development is paid by a less of stability. But is wine currently stable? By many tests with windows apps could I recognize that it is not ever! We should make a weekly public list of currently working applications (out of the box). I strongly think this is the measurement of the development progress of wine. This is is also the only thing users are interested in! So if the developers has a huge effort to develop things in wine but the count of working apps is not increasing over the time so its a strong indicator that something goes wrong. Think about commercial software dev projects they have milestones and deadlines and they have to fulfil it. Why not making hard milestones and a hard deadline which the project itself can measure against it . Lets say the deadline of a version 1.0 is end of next year (2008-01-01). So if everybody has this deadline in brain, it meight make the whole thing a bit more efficient. Its easier to make hard priority decisions. Roland >----- Ursprüngliche Mail ---- >Von: Detlef Riekenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >An: Roland Kaeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: Jim White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; wine-devel@winehq.com >Gesendet: Samstag, den 16. September 2006, 19:16:34 Uhr >Betreff: Re: AW: Already Error while installing MS Office 2003 > >On Sa, 2006-09-16 at 06:34 +0000, Roland Kaeser wrote: >> Why don't just accept the code? >You want stable software, don't you? > >> There is enough time later to make it more "beautiful" or correct it >> to a better quality. >Who will do it later? >Nobody! > >> But for the moment, some of the code directly allows important apps to >> work. > >And break other Applications. > > >-- > >By by ... Detlef
