[Wine] Re: [AppDB] modify installs and runs fields

["Alexander N. Sørnes"]

Tony Lambregts skrev:

> Alexander N. Sørnes wrote:
>
>>
>> Tony Lambregts skrev:
>>
>>> Mike McCormack wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually it appears other share my altered sense of reality.
>>>>
>>>> World Of Warcraft 1.3.0  is the top ranking "Gold" application, yet 
>>>> it requires mfc42, msvcp60.dll and possibly some patches to run.
>>>>
>>>> MS Money is also in the Gold list and requires DCOM95 and IE6.
>>>>
>>>> Are you really sure people understand what your definition of Gold is?
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>> Crap!!!
>>>
>>> Well http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings spells 
>>> it out that gold is just that.
>>>
>>> An application can be rated as Gold if it installs and runs "out of 
>>> the box".
>>>
>>> Some maintainers may have a distorted or over optimistic opinion of 
>>> their application. So we need to clean that up and change these 
>>> "False Gold" applications to "Silver"
>>>
>>> If anyone else knows of any other "False Gold" applications please 
>>> let us know.  appdb at winehq.org
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Can we not add another rank for the out-of-the-box-running 
>> applications?  Most people will be interested in how well an 
>> application can be made to run, and will not care if that means 
>> adding a single DLL override, especially if the DLL is installed 
>> together with the application.
>> Leaving just two levels to tell how well an application runs does not 
>> give a good overview; there are for example many games that work 
>> flawlessly in single-player mode, but not at all in multi-player 
>> mode; and some require a no-CD crack.
>>
>>
> Well as I've said before rating system sucks by definition. Anyway 
> these are the current definitions for the ratings.
>
> * Gold - An application can be rated as Gold if it installs and runs 
> "out of the box"
>
> * Silver - If an application needs DLL overrides (native DLL's from a 
> Windows installation) to install and run but runs flawlessly 
> otherwise, then it can be rated as silver. There should be an 
> accompanying "How-To" written to allow users to get this application 
> to run.
>
> * Bronze - Bronze Applications may have bugs in them and require DLL 
> overrides. If the program can be used as it was intended but is 
> missing features then the can be rated as Bronze.
>
> * Garbage - An app gets this rating if it can not be used for the 
> purpose it was designed. There should be at least one bug report in 
> bugzilla if an app gets this rating.
>
>   So lets say that we add another level and call it "platinum" and we 
> reserve it for "Works out of box", what would you gain?  Gold becomes 
> Platinum,  Silver becomes Gold and ... ???
>
> -- 
>
> Tony Lambregts
>
Then we would have

* Platinum: Application works flawlessly out-of-the-box

* Gold: Application works flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other 
settings, crack etc.

* Silver: Application works excellently for 'normal' use; a game works 
fine in single-player but not in multi-player, Windows Media Player 
works fine as a plug-in and stand-alone player, but can't handle DRM etc.

* Bronze: Application works, but it has some issues, even for normal 
use; a game may not redraw properly or display fonts in wrong colours, 
be a much slower than it should etc.

* Garbage: Application doesn't start, or starts but has so many errors 
that it is nearly impossible to use it