why is Kronenberg's Wine/Mac work blacklisted on winehq?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 19:12:14 CDT 2009


On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:10 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/27 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Roderick
>> Colenbrander<thunderbird2k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> If they ship hacks like the DIB engine then we won't accept bug
>>> reports for it as it a real big hack and shouldn't be linked to from
>>> our website. Tweaking themes or icons is fine. Actually we just need
>>> to refine our .msstyles support and then icon can just be part of a
>>> theme like they are on Windows.
>
>> I wouldn't call the DIB engine a hack. A large piece of code not
>> accepted into official WineHQ, sure.
>
>
> Even the author considers it a *bit* of one :-)

Without starting a huge side argument, until a proper way is known, it
can't really be a hack.

Besides...the test suite passes with it :-).


-- 
-Austin



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