wine users - Feb 2006 - Re: [AppDB] modify installs and runs fields

Mike McCormack wrote:
>
> Actually it appears other share my altered sense of reality.
>
> World Of Warcraft 1.3.0  is the top ranking "Gold" application,
yet it
> requires mfc42, msvcp60.dll and possibly some patches to run.
>
> MS Money is also in the Gold list and requires DCOM95 and IE6.
>
> Are you really sure people understand what your definition of Gold is?
>
> Mike
>
Crap!!!

Well http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings spells it 
out that gold is just that.

An application can be rated as Gold if it installs and runs "out of the 
box".

Some maintainers may have a distorted or over optimistic opinion of 
their application. So we need to clean that up and change these "False 
Gold" applications to "Silver"

If anyone else knows of any other "False Gold" applications please let
us know.  appdb@winehq.org

--

Tony Lambregts

Can we not add another rank for the out-of-the-box-running 
applications?  Most people will be interested in how well an application 
can be made to run, and will not care if that means adding a single DLL 
override, especially if the DLL is installed together with the application.
Leaving just two levels to tell how well an application runs does not 
give a good overview; there are for example many games that work 
flawlessly in single-player mode, but not at all in multi-player mode; 
and some require a no-CD crack.


Regards,

Alexander N. S?rnes


Tony Lambregts skrev:
> Mike McCormack wrote:
>
>>
>> Actually it appears other share my altered sense of reality.
>>
>> World Of Warcraft 1.3.0  is the top ranking "Gold"
application, yet
>> it requires mfc42, msvcp60.dll and possibly some patches to run.
>>
>> MS Money is also in the Gold list and requires DCOM95 and IE6.
>>
>> Are you really sure people understand what your definition of Gold is?
>>
>> Mike
>>
> Crap!!!
>
> Well http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings spells it 
> out that gold is just that.
>
> An application can be rated as Gold if it installs and runs "out of 
> the box".
>
> Some maintainers may have a distorted or over optimistic opinion of 
> their application. So we need to clean that up and change these "False
> Gold" applications to "Silver"
>
> If anyone else knows of any other "False Gold" applications
please let
> us know.  appdb@winehq.org
>
> -- 
>
> Tony Lambregts
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

On 2/6/06, Tony Lambregts <tony.lambregts@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Mike McCormack wrote:
>
> >
> > Actually it appears other share my altered sense of reality.
> >
> > World Of Warcraft 1.3.0  is the top ranking "Gold"
application, yet it
> > requires mfc42, msvcp60.dll and possibly some patches to run.
> >
> > MS Money is also in the Gold list and requires DCOM95 and IE6.
> >
> > Are you really sure people understand what your definition of Gold is?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> Crap!!!
>
> Well http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings spells it
> out that gold is just that.
>
> An application can be rated as Gold if it installs and runs "out of
the
> box".
>
> Some maintainers may have a distorted or over optimistic opinion of
> their application. So we need to clean that up and change these "False
> Gold" applications to "Silver"
>
> If anyone else knows of any other "False Gold" applications
please let
> us know.  appdb@winehq.org
>

Well, don't re-judge an app just based on user submitted test info.  I
still get people saying they use native msvcrt.dll when they don't
have to.  Also in the area of no-cd cracks, it's still pretty wild. 
I've found that I don't need them but some people still need them. 
Also there have been many reports coming in about problems that trace
back to their sound drivers.

I've rated my apps gold because I truly don't have any trouble, but
there seems to be issues beyond the control of wine that makes some
users experiences less than gold.  I've tried my best to help everyone
but it's really hard when I can't see what's going on and the user
has
hardly any debugging experience.