wine users - Mar 2009 - Website: appdb feedback for older versions of wine?

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-0bae04b4126dffb8a08bf020982badacb6f367ff

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

dtakamori wrote:
> 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.