[Wine] Clarification of ratings...

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 23:16:44 CST 2009


On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:08 PM, jeffz <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>> > By the same reasoning, some native dlls are out of the scope of users who do are not licensed to use them.
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>> I have to agree with Austin.  The AppDB is aimed at ordinary (meaning non-technical) users. Most of these users do not have the skill to patch Wine, but most do have easy access to Windows dlls.
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> It's not a matter of skill, it's a matter of willingness.  So long as a user is apt in reading comprehension and they want to expend the effort they can patch and build from source.
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Which also requires finding out how to compile, getting the source
code, filling up your machine with development packages so you can
compile, etc.

This argument is moot anyway, as there's no way for us to force users
to rate apps by our standard.

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-Austin



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