[Wine] Easy question

[James Mckenzie]

John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> well ya ideally just patching in wine would be AWESOME if the tweeks are all done with just swaping native dll's.... but
>> their [sic] not...
>>
Nor should this be a matter of practice.
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>Under normal circumstances users should not be patching wine. If there
>was a regression, regression tests should be done and a patch should
>be created that will eventually make it into a future wine releases.
>
To add to John's comment:  If there is missing/incorrect functionality, just posting a message here in the mailing list/forum WILL NOT get it fixed.  Users have to create bug reports in Wine's Bugzilla or update existing reports.  Without these, the Wine Development people, who for the most part are volunteers, have no idea on where to place their assets, time and knowledge, to help and resolve issues.  We also don't know if something broke while trying to fix something else without these reports.

Simply, if you want Wine to become better, you have to file bug reports.  The developers don't have the time to cull through hundreds of messages to find that a problem exists or that it has been fixed.

James McKenzie