These new definitions are the right idea, obviously they'd need to be refined a bit, but it's the right direction. Perhaps we could actually have the user fill out a little survey to automatically give a rating. For instance, if it installs, runs perfectly, doesn't require dll overrides, give it platinum without even giving the user a choice. Just use radio selections.
<br><br>Full support from this side of the table either way it goes.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">"Alexander N. S�rnes"</b> <<a href="mailto:alex@thehandofagony.com">
alex@thehandofagony.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Tony Lambregts skrev:<br><br>> Alexander N. S�rnes wrote:
<br>><br>>><br>>> Tony Lambregts skrev:<br>>><br>>>> Mike McCormack wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>><br>>>>> Actually it appears other share my altered sense of reality.
<br>>>>><br>>>>> World Of Warcraft 1.3.0 is the top ranking "Gold" application, yet<br>>>>> it requires mfc42, msvcp60.dll and possibly some patches to run.<br>>>>>
<br>>>>> MS Money is also in the Gold list and requires DCOM95 and IE6.<br>>>>><br>>>>> Are you really sure people understand what your definition of Gold is?<br>>>>><br>>>>> Mike
<br>>>>><br>>>> Crap!!!<br>>>><br>>>> Well <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings">http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings</a> spells<br>>>> it out that gold is just that.
<br>>>><br>>>> An application can be rated as Gold if it installs and runs "out of<br>>>> the box".<br>>>><br>>>> Some maintainers may have a distorted or over optimistic opinion of
<br>>>> their application. So we need to clean that up and change these<br>>>> "False Gold" applications to "Silver"<br>>>><br>>>> If anyone else knows of any other "False Gold" applications please
<br>>>> let us know. <a href="mailto:appdb@winehq.org">appdb@winehq.org</a><br>>>><br>>>><br>>><br>>> Can we not add another rank for the out-of-the-box-running<br>>> applications? Most people will be interested in how well an
<br>>> application can be made to run, and will not care if that means<br>>> adding a single DLL override, especially if the DLL is installed<br>>> together with the application.<br>>> Leaving just two levels to tell how well an application runs does not
<br>>> give a good overview; there are for example many games that work<br>>> flawlessly in single-player mode, but not at all in multi-player<br>>> mode; and some require a no-CD crack.<br>>><br>>>
<br>> Well as I've said before rating system sucks by definition. Anyway<br>> these are the current definitions for the ratings.<br>><br>> * Gold - An application can be rated as Gold if it installs and runs<br>
> "out of the box"<br>><br>> * Silver - If an application needs DLL overrides (native DLL's from a<br>> Windows installation) to install and run but runs flawlessly<br>> otherwise, then it can be rated as silver. There should be an
<br>> accompanying "How-To" written to allow users to get this application<br>> to run.<br>><br>> * Bronze - Bronze Applications may have bugs in them and require DLL<br>> overrides. If the program can be used as it was intended but is
<br>> missing features then the can be rated as Bronze.<br>><br>> * Garbage - An app gets this rating if it can not be used for the<br>> purpose it was designed. There should be at least one bug report in<br>> bugzilla if an app gets this rating.
<br>><br>> So lets say that we add another level and call it "platinum" and we<br>> reserve it for "Works out of box", what would you gain? Gold becomes<br>> Platinum, Silver becomes Gold and ... ???
<br>><br>> --<br>><br>> Tony Lambregts<br>><br>Then we would have<br><br>* Platinum: Application works flawlessly out-of-the-box<br><br>* Gold: Application works flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other<br>
settings, crack etc.<br><br>* Silver: Application works excellently for 'normal' use; a game works<br>fine in single-player but not in multi-player, Windows Media Player<br>works fine as a plug-in and stand-alone player, but can't handle DRM etc.
<br><br>* Bronze: Application works, but it has some issues, even for normal<br>use; a game may not redraw properly or display fonts in wrong colours,<br>be a much slower than it should etc.<br><br>* Garbage: Application doesn't start, or starts but has so many errors
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