On 09/28/2011 05:57 AM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > On 09/28/2011 04:18 AM, Alex Bradbury wrote: >> Do correct me if I'm wrong here, but users who don't want regressions >> in their favourite apps/games should be using the stable release. It >> doesn't seem fair to complain about regressions being ignored unless >> 1.4 releases with a significant number of them. > > If Wine would release stable versions every 3-4 months sure. But last > stable version released on April 8. And only contains small number of > fixes since wine-1.2 which was released on July 16. > > Many programs don't work with wine-1.2.3 for number of reasons. Besides, > everywhere (forum, bugzilla, irc) we tell users to upgrade to latest > development version, because we not going to fix any bugs in old > "stable" versions. > >
There's a reason I've consistently been advocating for more frequent, or even regular, stable releases. We don't need fancy big features to justify a release, mere apps working is enough. -Scott
