[Wine] Ubuntu repo versus WINE

[tparker]

On 05/18/2011 03:55 AM, dusf wrote:
>   is there any reason to add the WINE repo when I am only interested in stable releases for mainly playing World of Warcraft?

Wine 1.2 is called 'stable' but that description can be confusing. It's 
more that it mean 1.2 is 'unchanging', 1.2 is finished and will stay 
as-is from now on. This doesn't mean that 1.3 is 'unstable' as in buggy 
and crashy, but means 1.3 is the version that is not unchanging - any 
new advancements, fixes, patches that get rolled into the code, etc. 
will show up in 1.3, but 1.2 will never get them.

If you try 1.2 and it works for everything you need, great, but if you 
are having trouble with a program people will want you to move to a 
newer version to see if the problem was already fixed after 1.2 went 
'stable' or if it's something that still needs work.