[Wine] How come wine doesn't improve?

[Zerothis]

Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 17 Jun 2006 at 15:25, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> 
> 
>>Even though wine versions get released often and the weekly
>>newsletters seem to report progress I get the impression that wine is
>>not really improving. Of course it happens that some applications work
>>with newer wine versions which didn't work with older ones, but at the
>>same time old applications stop working. Is it only me that gets the
>>impression that wine only changes over time, but doesn't improve?
>>
> 
> 
> I get the same impression, but I have to realise that I have my own 
> agenda - i.e I want to get a few Windows apps working reliably in Wine 
> on a long term basis so I can migrate to Linux completely.  My 'killer' 
> apps are MS Money 2004 (which currently is broken) and a UK tax 
> calculation package (which I have only just started to look at under 
> Wine).  
> 
> However, I get the impression that games get a lot more attention and 
> excite the devlopers more than my boring business apps.  I can't 
> complain.  Except for the contributions of Codeweavers, all the 
> developers are volunteers and we cannot (must not) make them feel 
> obliged to sort out our specific problems.  
> 
> Tony

It is the stated philosophy of the wine team that the goal of wine is 
accuracy, not to run more apps.

So, eventually wine will run 100% accurate and exactly 0 apps.











































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