wine users - May 2011 - Ubuntu repo versus WINE

On installing Xubuntu 11.04 yesterday I installed WINE via synaptic, selecting
the package 'wine' manually which seems to have then installed
'wine1.2' and then some other packages.

[Image: http://oi51.tinypic.com/s4za78.jpg ]

I was going to add the WINE repo to upgrade to 1.3 when I saw the package
already exists in synaptic.

My question is why doesn't Ubuntu use 1.3 which is there, and if I manually
select and install it is there any reason to add the WINE repo when I am only
interested in stable releases for mainly playing World of Warcraft?[/img]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:55, dusf <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> On installing Xubuntu 11.04 yesterday I installed WINE via synaptic,
selecting the package 'wine' manually which seems to have then installed
'wine1.2' and then some other packages.
>
> [Image: http://oi51.tinypic.com/s4za78.jpg ]
>
> I was going to add the WINE repo to upgrade to 1.3 when I saw the package
already exists in synaptic.
>
> My question is why doesn't Ubuntu use 1.3 which is there
Because wine1.2 is the stable release
>, and if I manually select and install it is there any reason to add the
WINE repo when I am only interested in stable releases for mainly playing World
of Warcraft?[/img]
Because stable release doesn't run all applications perfectly;  1.3
series provides (more recent) development versions/snapshots, but some
app working in 1.3.x may not work anymore in 1.3.(x+1) [hence the
development part, or alpha if you prefer].
If the apps you use work in 1.2.x keep that version, since newer 1.2.x
won't add invasive potentially app-breaking changes, while 1.3.x may

On 05/18/2011 03:55 AM, dusf wrote:
>   is there any reason to add the WINE repo when I am only interested in
stable releases for mainly playing World of Warcraft?
Wine 1.2 is called 'stable' but that description can be confusing.
It's
more that it mean 1.2 is 'unchanging', 1.2 is finished and will stay 
as-is from now on. This doesn't mean that 1.3 is 'unstable' as in
buggy
and crashy, but means 1.3 is the version that is not unchanging - any 
new advancements, fixes, patches that get rolled into the code, etc. 
will show up in 1.3, but 1.2 will never get them.

If you try 1.2 and it works for everything you need, great, but if you 
are having trouble with a program people will want you to move to a 
newer version to see if the problem was already fixed after 1.2 went 
'stable' or if it's something that still needs work.