[Wine] Clarification of ratings...

[Austin English]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Nick_S <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I was browsing apps and looking for games that run in Wine as Gold or better.
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> The issue is that I see many apps listed as gold that require recompiling Wine with patches to get them to work.  From my understanding, any application that requires code changes should be listed as garbage and tied to a patch/bug to be able to operate.  That and any application that ranks higher should run under a default build of Wine with minor configuration changes (DLL override, audio selection, etc.)
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> Is it proper/(fair to Wine and it's image) to call an app Platinum/Gold/Silver if you have to recompile it after changing the base code?
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There was a discussion on this on wine-devel recently. The problem is
that users decide the rating, and although they're checked by
administrators, they can slip by.

And to answer your question, no. If patches are required, it should
not be gold, etc. All ratings should be based on what you can do
_without_ recompiling.

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-Austin