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No WINE Before Its Time

Posted by Zonk on from the uncork-that-sucker dept.

Joe Barr writes "Stephen Feller has a story about WINE on NewsForge this morning ahead of next week's expected Beta release. The WINE project is 12 years old, so it's just about time." From the article: "'Wine has historically had a very frustrating history because it has been alpha software,' White said. 'This is really hard work. We're replicating the work of a billion-dollar company. The reason we're saying it's alpha is because we believe we still have fundamental changes to make on the way the internals work.' Noting that it has not always been easy to install software with Wine's alpha releases over the last decade, White said that once you got something working it has never meant it would continue to do so, or do so properly. There may have been display glitches or things not functioning properly, if a program even worked with Wine at all." OSTG is the parent company of both Slashdot and NewsForge.

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  1. Let me be the first to say... by ForumTroll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I want a project manager that gives me this kinds of deadline. =(

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    "A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing." - Alan Perlis
  2. No WINE Before Its Time by Slashdiddly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which in the US is 21. Looks like we'll have to wait 9 more years.