Making people aware about appdb and outdated Wine versions.

Matt Finnicum mattfinn at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 14:25:11 CDT 2006


> --SNIP--
> Second: Old version of Wine are still quite used because of package
> managers just offers "stable" Wine versions over the "unstable" ones so I would like
> to see another popup or warning in winecfg that informs user that their Wine is
> getting old... so after specific number of days(from release of Wine version X)
> counter gives some warnings about old Wine version.

Having a popup (or anything that requires user interaction) could get
really irritating - there are situations where people would use an
older version of wine on purpose. Like if a large organization uses it
to run one specific app, and has a specific version that works
perfectly, they might not have any reason to update.

How about a fixme when wine is run, informing them that the version
they are running was released X long ago, and that if they have any
issues they should try a newer version?

It'd be nice, too, if people then reported bugs with that on the top
of the output - it could save a lot of work chasing down already-fixed
issues.

--Matt



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