[Wine] How come wine doesn't improve?

[Darren Wilkinson]

Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 17 Jun 2006 at 15:25, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> 
>> Even though wine versions get released often and the weekly
>> newsletters seem to report progress I get the impression that wine is
>> not really improving. Of course it happens that some applications work
>> with newer wine versions which didn't work with older ones, but at the
>> same time old applications stop working. Is it only me that gets the
>> impression that wine only changes over time, but doesn't improve?
>>
File a bug report. If you know the wine version that broke your app or use 
binary packages to find out regression testing can be quite quick.
> 
> I get the same impression, but I have to realise that I have my own 
> agenda - i.e I want to get a few Windows apps working reliably in Wine 
> on a long term basis so I can migrate to Linux completely.  My 'killer' 
> apps are MS Money 2004 (which currently is broken) and a UK tax 
> calculation package (which I have only just started to look at under 
> Wine).  
> 
> However, I get the impression that games get a lot more attention and 
> excite the devlopers more than my boring business apps.  I can't 
> complain.  Except for the contributions of Codeweavers, all the 
> developers are volunteers and we cannot (must not) make them feel 
> obliged to sort out our specific problems.  
> 
> Tony
> 
If there isn't a bug report for your app then file one. Bugzilla is there for a 
reason. BTW I've got the impression that games get less attention but maybe I'm 
wrong.