wine-1.0 goal: fix all reported msi and ole bugs?

[Dan Kegel]

On 6/22/06, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/22/06, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> > I just looked, and there aren't *that* many msi and ole bugs
> > reported in bugzilla.
> >
> > Would it be unreasonable to set a goal of having
> > all msi and ole bugs fixed for wine-1.0 ?
>
> Just to clarify that last statement, you mean all reported msi and ole bugs?

Yep.  Can't fix the unreported ones...

> My opinion is that this is a reasonable goal for 1.0, and a necessary
> goal at that.  When we say, "1.0 is out!" new users should at least be
> able to try their software in wine, which requires the installers to
> work.  At this point, at least with msi, fixing the bugs isn't
> requiring major infrastructure change, just changing the behavior of a
> certain feature (in most cases).

Well, it turns out that fixing all reported install bugs at the moment
does require some interesting work:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4632 requires msi to support sql joins
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5322 needs a performance registry entry
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5540 requires the msi service!
So perhaps some of those could be postponed to after 1.0.

But the rest -- the "easy" ones (hah) -- we ought to do.
In particular, it'd be great to support widely-used apps like Lotus Notes,
whose installer we can't handle well at all right now:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5595

All in favor of getting the Lotus Notes 6.5.x installer working for Wine 1.0,
raise your hands...
- Dan