[Bug 31374] Steam text invisible with dwrite.dll enabled

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31374

--- Comment #65 from Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net> 2013-07-11 10:03:20 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #64)

> The what? We're not talking about "testing branches" here, we're talking about
> the 1.6.0 release, which is a stable release.
> 

Well, I think that gets into the question of what purpose, if any, the "stable"
branch serves. From what I've observed, it seems to serve two purposes: a
security blanket for users who need one, and a reason to impose a code freeze
once in awhile. Nobody cares about the first reason except the silly people who
fall into that category. As for the second reason, since the issue here is
completing an incomplete new feature, I suspect that code freeze means it can't
be worked on until after 1.6 is released.  

> And what's the point of making users "test" something that's known to be broken
> for a year?

Incomplete is not the same as broken. New features are added to Wine in small
parts, so each part can be tested and problems identified early, before
something else is added that depends on behavior that turns out to be a real
bug. In practice, this means that for a period of time when a new feature is
being introduced, fixing one problem just leads you to next. That's what
happened in this case--the first bug was a crash. 

(In reply to comment #59)
> 
> Before the response was "this is an unstable Wine version, we will fix it
> later, downgrade to stable"
> 

I don't know where you imagine you saw the advice to downgrade to the stable
release, but it's nowhere in this bug report.

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