AppDB: Rating / Patching

[Austin English]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Chris Howe <mrmessiah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Forgive me for bringing this up again, but could this be another
> argument for some kind of WineTricks-like Wine application launcher
> that would exist as a separate project to Wine, but would apply patches,
> particular settings, &c in order to get particular applications to work
> better with the current latest version of Wine?
>
> Users would presumably be happy because they download Wine, download
> the launcher, and have great user experience "out of the box" with less
> complication.
>
> Devs would also presumably be happy as:
> - they would be able to use it as a source of inspiration for ongoing work
> - it makes concerns like this moot when it comes to appdb
>
> Might even be a good way of gently reminding users when new versions of
> Wine are released...
>
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> Chris
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You're free to do that if you'd like, but I don't see how that would
help. The effort is better spent getting those patches put into Wine
itself.

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-Austin