[Article] WINE and the importance of application compatibility

[Kai Blin]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 01:45:14 Scott Ritchie wrote:

> I don't think we'll get much traction with this unless we can reasonably
> tell them they only need to test the stable Wine release.  But 1.0 is
> pretty old these days, so they probably won't bother.
>
> I'll add it to my list of evangelism to do after Wine 1.2 hits.  And
> also not-so-subtly suggest this is another reason Wine 1.2 needs to
> happen sooner ;)

There's two sides to this, though. From an ISV perspective, there's something 
as "release too often". I've heard fom many distros that they're not too 
happy about Samba doing a minor version bump twice a year these days. Of 
course I guess a Wine stable release once a year is reasonable, assuming we 
try really hard to not regress between stable releases. That depends on being 
able to test a lot of applications, though.

Cheers,
Kai

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