Lots of regressions in games in last few versions

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Marcel wrote:
>> i don't even see the point of a 1.0 release at this point in time.
>> This project has been a work in progress since 15 years.
>> Why the heck has it been decided to do a 'gold' release *now* anyways?
> 
> To get lots more people to try it and report bugs, so it can improve faster.
This is questionable. I can point to several bug reports that have several 
dozen people reporting problems and that are still open for years. So just 
saying more bug reports results into better Wine is not true.

What it will do is put huge strain on people looking at bugzilla. And poor 
bug analysis. Just look at how many d3d related bugs and how much analysis 
in each. I'd say about 60% of all of those reports are duplicate, caused by 
system misconfiguration, conflicts with other software (compiz anyone?) or 
just plain invalid.

Not to take anything away from all the hard work d3d developers did and 
continue doing.

> And to get the word out about its rapid progress in the last two years.
> Most people still think Wine can't wipe its nose.
> 
> Now, for some users, Wine still can't wipe its nose -- it all depends on the
> app you try.  But it seems that "linux wine sucks" pulls only about
> half as many hits as "linux wine amazing" in a web search, so we
> must be doing something right lately.

For most people yeah it will be a surprise. Until they hit first major 
problem. Which will put them back into windows land. You see there are much 
more people out there that use PCs as ... tools. Those tools either work or 
they don't. Wine just does not cut it. It's a toy not a tool.

Even targeted apps don't work perfectly - have some problems here and there. 
People won't stand that. They already feed up with windows...

The only loyal public Wine can have is gamers. And we still ignoring this fact.

Oh and the whole point of wine-1.0 - and the way it's being presented seems 
like a joke to me. Give me a break 4 apps?! 3 of which being direct 
competitors to native Linux applications! And such an old versions [97] that 
no one even uses them anymore.

If anything we should be emphasizing that the code freeze is to stabilize 
Wine and fix bugs. ALL bugs regardless of the app.

Vitaliy