Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

[Austin English]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:14 PM, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Chris Ahrendt <celticht32 at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes I am sorry for the long post =) but he did ask for some of my
>> thoughts =)
>>
>>>
>>> Most debugger GUIs on Linux are (somewhat sucky) frontends to gdb. I'm pretty
>>> sure it's possible to create something similar for winedbg.
>>>
>>
>> Cool thats all I am saying here... is provide the hooks  =) the gdb
>> interface for winedbg is really kludgy.... or I found it to be... so
>> just get rid of the middleman =)
>>
>
> If you've found a problem with winedbg, or a certain feature is
> missing, then file a bug.
>
> ...
> ...
>
> All the rest of your wish list, and I'm pretty sure I didn't miss
> anything, has nothing to do with Wine in particular, or there is
> nothing that can be changed in Wine itself to accommodate your wishes.
>  Most of your wishes sound like IDE integration problems that need to
> be brought up with those particular projects.
>
> I absolutely agree with Kai on the difficulty level.  The threshold
> for Wine development is very high.  If an interested developer can't
> get anything done without the items on your wish list, then how can he
> successfully hack on Wine?  General development skills are just the
> door to Wine development.  Once you walk through that door, fixing
> Wine is a whole other can of worms.
>
> --
> James Hawkins
>
>
>

Can we get back to the original discussion and decide how we want to
collect Wine usage statistics?

-- 
-Austin