Wine 0.9.25 full of regressions!

[Peter Beutner]

Joseph Garvin schrieb:
> Aaron Slunt wrote:
>>> Wine is still beta software, it has never been officially released,
>>> therefore you have to expect these sorts of things.
> 
> I think that misses the point. Users expect software to improve between
> releases, not totally break. It's pretty obvious that there is no one
> checking to make sure common apps work before rolling the release
> tarballs. Granted, sometimes it's necessary for parts of wine to be
> totally restructured in order to do things correctly and avoiding
> regressions in this case is unavoidable, but as far as I'm aware from
> lurking on wine-patches there weren't any great restructurings of how
> OpenGL worked in 0.9.25. To be honest it doesn't feel like there has
> been a significant move towards preventing regressions since 0.9.0,
> which I thought was the point of that release, although I may misunderstand.
> 
> Why would it be so difficult to have someone to pick a couple of common
> apps, like winzip, word, and warcraft3, and make sure they still
> function before every release?
> 
I think you shouldn't see 0.9.{1...25} as "real releases" but more as regular
development snapshots of the code to help getting it tested by more people.
There is (as far as i can tell) no extra testing before a release or holding it
back due to known regressions.

In that sense the last "real release" (with feature freeze, concentrating on bugfixes, etc)
was 0.9.