Website: appdb feedback for older versions of wine?

[dtakamori]

Hi,

I have Ubuntu Hardy, which is a LTS (long term support) release. This means it'll be supported for a while. But it also means that there's a base of users of an older version of Wine that will want to try out programs but will want to see how an app performs against the Wine version they're using.

To that end, I'd love to contribute to the Wine appdb, but the appdb currently only supports entries for really recent and unstable 1.1 versions of Wine, and not the "stable" 1.0.1 version noted on the FAQ 2.1 "Which version of Wine should I use?" at

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-0bae04b ... acb6f367ff

It would seem like a good idea to allow people to provide feedback about what apps work well against the stable version of Wine, so that other users can see if they should bother trying to install an app that may or may not work.

Just my 2 cents... I thought I'd correct some negative feedback I'd seen, and was disappointed to see that I couldn't do anything to help AppDB show how far Wine has gotten because of this restriction on the "Add Test Data" form. I have the latest Hardy update version, which is currently 1.0.0-1ubuntu4~hardy1 .

Best,

Daiji

[vitamin]

It would seem like a good idea to allow people to provide feedback about what apps work well against the stable version of Wine, so that other users can see if they should bother trying to install an app that may or may not work.

This is being discussed on wine-devel mailing list. Most likely in the next week or two you might have those versions in AppDB.

However keep in mind that Wine is not like most other projects. It's never complete in a sense that "stable" wine-1.0.1version was not meant to run any more programs in a more stable way then current Wine versions.

Yes, there were more bug fixes in wine-1.0.1 then any other version. But not all known bugs were fixed. Nor everything missing implemented.

[dtakamori]

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, from my perspective it's not about getting things fixed in my current version as much as knowing whether it would be worth bothering with trying to install something new onto this box versus moving to a new version of Ubuntu, or waiting for a patch to come, etc. I don't know if that affects the decisions on wine-devel, but that was the perspective I had. As it turns out in my specific case, I was incorrect and was looking at a slightly different version of the app, and so there was no need for me to update the appdb. But again, thanks for listening.