[Bug 42741] Multiple Blizzard games fail to launch (StarCraft I & II, Diablo III, Heroes of the Storm)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42741

Claudio <sick_soul at yahoo.it> changed:

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--- Comment #71 from Claudio <sick_soul at yahoo.it> ---
This affects Warcraft III too, in the exact same way (running wine-5.18
(Staging)).

This bug is a very good showcase of what is wrong in the way the Wine Project
has been developing and handling issues in the now decades of development.

It has never been focused on applications, only on the general framework
development, never considering applications as the focus.

The result is this, all Blizzard games broken, and it's business as usual.

Instead of proceeding with the constant refactoring and general development,
this should have been marked as a "regression", the patch introducing the
overarching framework changes _reverted_ until the regression was fixed,

instead of proceeding with the change and then leaving it to a few frustrated
people to hunt enablement again.

This is completely backwards. I know it is hopeless (this is a 30 year project,
so the minds are set), but a less _disfunctional_ project would treat
regressions seriously (like the Linux kernel).

The kernel has a clear rule: "we do not break userspace. Enabling user space
applications is the goal of the kernel, not anything else. Anything that breaks
userspace is wrong by definition, and is a regression".

I wish for any functional fork of wine (be it Proton or other forks) could take
and adopt this mindset, if the wine project is unable to.

Rant off,

CLaudio

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