Wine 0.8 TODO v0.1

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.com
Thu Oct 31 17:02:37 CST 2002


"Dimitrie O. Paun" <dpaun at rogers.com> writes:

> Now, again, what I mean by 0.8:
>   -- Users can start using Wine
> 	-- works well for a fair number of apps
> 	-- no MS DLLs required (from real Windows)

That alone should take a couple of years <g>

>   -- User facing stuff (website, docs, etc.) are in
> 	a decent state, to avoid scaring them away
> What is NOT in 0.8:
>   -- stable server protocol: no binary compatibility
>   -- DLL separation: ditto

IMO the goals for 0.9 will be reached before the ones for 0.8 so you
might as well put everything together...

> D. Stabilize utilities
>   0. Get rid of the init directive from .spec files

This requires dll separation...

> E. Important fixes
>   Alexandre, what to you see here?

I think the window management stuff is important, otherwise you can't
install most apps without using desktop mode. But it's already in the
0.9 goals (and I'm working on it).

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com



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