On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:55, Scott Ritchie <sc...@open-vote.org> wrote: > 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.
There's no reason you (as a package manager) couldn't choose a particular development release and mark it as stable in your distribution. E.g., Fedora does this, currently has wine 1.3.21, unless you enable updates-testing, which has 1.3.29. In any case, I think this topic is best reserved for discussion at Wineconf, especially since it's not that far away ;). -- -Austin