AW: Already Error while installing MS Office 2003

[Stephen Eilert]

I like the deadline idea, but I do think they've got this already,
just not in terms of working applications, but subsystems.

For the *weekly* application list, who is going to compile it? Wine is
not Microsoft, therefore they do not have access to something along
the lines of Microsoft's Compatibility Lab (and I think not even
Microsoft itself could release this weekly list).

Furthermore, applications have to be legally purchased to be tested,
as far as I know. I'm not a [wine]developer, but I think you have
absolutely no idea of the amount of effort you are talking about.

There is Wine Application Database. I've contributed one entry myself.
Not much, I know, but at least it is a start.



Stephen



On 9/16/06, Roland Kaeser <roli8200 at yahoo.de> wrote:
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> >You want stable software, don't you?
> Yes but not for the price of developing 10 years for a software.
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> >And break other Applications.
> Not urgently
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> Hey guys can't anybody see the reason? The wine project (or the finish of
> itself) could bring linux the breakthrough. I know a lot of people who asks
> as first question: Is this or the other app working on linux? Then I will
> think about a migration.
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> Yes, faster development is paid by a less of stability. But is wine
> currently stable? By many tests with windows apps could I recognize that it
> is not ever!
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> We should make a weekly public list of currently working applications (out
> of the box). I strongly think this is the measurement of the development
> progress of wine. This is is also the only thing users are interested in! So
> if the developers has a huge effort to develop things in wine but the count
> of working apps is not increasing over the time so its a strong indicator
> that something goes wrong. Think about commercial software dev projects they
> have milestones and deadlines and they have to fulfil it. Why not making
> hard milestones and a hard deadline which the project itself can measure
> against it . Lets say the deadline of a version 1.0 is end of next year
> (2008-01-01). So if everybody has this deadline in brain, it meight make the
> whole thing a bit more efficient. Its easier to make hard priority
> decisions.
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> Roland
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> >----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----
> >Von: Detlef Riekenberg <wine.dev at web.de>
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> >An: Roland Kaeser <roli8200 at yahoo.de>
> >CC: Jim White <jim at pagesmiths.com>; wine-devel at winehq.com
> >Gesendet: Samstag, den 16. September 2006, 19:16:34 Uhr
> >Betreff: Re: AW: Already Error while installing MS Office 2003
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> >On Sa, 2006-09-16 at 06:34 +0000, Roland Kaeser wrote:
> >> Why don't just accept the code?
> >You want stable software, don't you?
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> >> There is enough time later to make it more "beautiful" or correct it
> >> to a better quality.
> >Who will do it later?
> >Nobody!
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> >> But for the moment, some of the code directly allows important apps to
> >> work.
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> >And break other Applications.
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> >--
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> >By by ... Detlef
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