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WineConf 2005 Sets Deadline for Wine 0.9

Posted by timothy on from the windows-users-decant-of-your-sins dept.

IamTheRealMike writes "As WineConf 2005 took place last weekend, the Wine developers discussed the project's direction and future. A new deadline of September 30th for the 0.9 release was set by Alexandre Julliard -- the release promises to bring an end to the system of monthly snapshots and provide a new focus on ease of use and stability. A new GPLd application regression testing tool called CXTest was demoed, as was some of the great Direct3D work being done lately. Finally the CEO of Gupta gave a talk. Gupta have ported their 4GL RAD tools to Linux by working with Codeweavers (who sponsored the event), and their experiences were documented in a fascinating presentation. Overall: big thumbs up, but it's not obvious enough that there's enterprise-level support available for Wine. Check out the group photo and the new Wiki!"

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  1. I could be out of line... by wcitech · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Call me crazy, but isn't it deadlines like these that cause software products to often be lacking? I might understand if this were a major for-profit corporation who NEEDED a release in order to satisfy their fiscal department, but isn't this an open-source not-for-profit project? Why have deadlines?

    1. Re:I could be out of line... by m50d · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Like debian, wine has been far too long without a stable release. By all means don't rush it, but you do need to actually release a working version once in a while. At the moment any stable version of wine is stable purely through luck - they're just cvs snapshots.

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  2. Thanks to CodeWeavers by XanC · · Score: 5, Informative
    We use their fine product to allow library patrons to run MS Office on some of our public workstations. It's great to know how much they contribute back to Wine and the community.

    Kudos to them!

  3. Wine/Cross platform compatibility kit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just curious if something like this would be possible, i.e. to have a plugin to VisualStudio.NET that will notify at the time of writing the code whether a certain function exists inside the Wine compatibility layer. The thought behind this would be to get into developers' heads the idea that either not being lazy or rather putting in a bit more effort at the time of writing the code would ensure compatibility down the line and open up more avenues of possibility for their application.

  4. Women by alta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, all the women in that pictures really says a lot. ...Geeks

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