[Bug 11674] Dual-core unsupported in WoW and SC2

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11674

--- Comment #188 from Alexey Loukianov <mooroon2 at mail.ru> 2012-06-13 19:34:30 CDT ---
paolinidiego, I'm not sure it I've got your message right (no surprise, English
ins't a native language for most of us here), but if you're about "do not
blindly close, improve the patch and include it upstream" - I'm totally agree
that having something that makes APPs behave better under Wine is a good thing,
but if you would look around bugzilla or wine-patches mailing list you would be
surprised about amount of patches that are refused for reasons that might seem
obscure at a first glance. In-proc wineserver, PA, pipes - there are a lot of
them hanging around, producing a lot of flame in related discussions and having
almost no chances to be included in upstream tree with currently used patch
accept policies.

>From what I've seen over the years I follow Wine project, for rgl patch to be
included it should (a) be a generic solution that works with every app, (b)
closely mirrors GL lib behaviour as observed from native code side (i.e. it
should behave the same way this API behaves on native, and produce the same
measurable results), (c) do not cause extra maintenance burden (having tweak
patch each time to maintain per-app compatibility is not a way to go) - core
Wine devteam manpower is a limited thing, and (d) patch should be splitted into
series of small ones well structured changes that would look convincingly good
for AJ and core devs of that part of the Wine that are affected.

I would be happy to be wrong on this, but as far as I can see this patch can't
be redone in a way that would comply with above points (and patch author
confirms it by telling "суть патча в том - что он требует ручной настройки
практически на каждую новую программу" - translation is "main point of the
patch is that it requires manual tweaking [to work] for almost every new
application") and that means that at best it would be left as it is - as an out
of tree patch helping some apps to work better. Looking at the other bugzilla
reports then end up being used as a chat + OOT patch hosting, general tendency
for them to being mostly ignored and/or closed as WONTFIX or NOTABUG. Nothing
more, nothing less. It's not my personal rant against this patch, it's just the
general tendency I had spotted over the years I've been using this bugzilla.

Well, it looks like enough flood for me, and so far I had written way more than
I wanted to write here initially, thus I simply shut up and hope for the best.

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