[Bug 2398] Application interface (LightWave 3D) completely unusable

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2398





------- Additional Comments From phil at ldex.terica.net  2005-30-09 21:50 -------
The problem is that :

a) The previous version worked for this app and potentially many others before
the change. The current version doesn't and there is no workaround/fix except
downgrading Wine. That kind of breakage would put off a good number of people
from using wine for any kind of development purpose. It would have been better
to retain the choice until bugs in the new code were hammered out (such as this
one). If I were a commercial vendor looking at something like Winelib for
porting an application, I suspect I would be less than encouraged by this
all-or-nothing approach to evolving the system. I don't dispute that many other
apps have seen their behaviour improve with the change - I'm simply suggesting
that having two systems side-by-side would be a better option at the moment.
Once this and other issues have been resolved in the new code, the old code
could be removed.

b) The old working version of Wine is not packaged for current distributions.
The user is left with a choice of attempting to install a package for an older
distribution (potentially also conflicting with any newer version of wine that
they care to install) or with compiling from source. That's not particularly
friendly and those users coming from Windows who are determined enough to go
this far will be few and far between (noting that Windows folks are not
generally disposed to filing bug reports following years of being ignored by
many vendors).
If there is no technical way of having both systems implemented in Wine (with
the old system being chosen by a command line switch or environment variable),
then what about having the last-known-good version of Wine available for current
distributions (and being able to be side-installed with the current version of
Wine)?


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