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Wine 1.0-rc2 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the very-good-year dept.

An anonymous reader writes notes the availability of Wine 1.0-rc2. Binaries for major distros are up now.

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  1. Catch 22 situation by dr.Flake · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unfortunately,
    If you look at the AppDb you'll see a lot of apps still not working 100%. F.i. Graphpad prism disappointed me last week. Most of them don't work because of some minor glitz. Before you say, well fix it you stupid, repairing them would introduce new regressions.

    I think its mostly because of some "hacks" used by lazy/clever/performance programmer, but therefore very intolerant to a "windows-like" environment.

    I hope Wine will get to the point, where it's influence will force programmers to stick to the specifications, as his/her boss is asking:" but will it also run under Wine???".

    Ps. I hope the number of RC's will remain below 40.

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    Why are other peoples sig's always more witty ???
  2. Re:If you want to help: by jeremy_white · · Score: 5, Interesting
    If you have a Linux installation, then you can help with this:
    http://wiki.winehq.org/MakeTestFailures
    and
    http://wiki.winehq.org/ConformanceTests

    For those wondering where the latest data is: in http://test.winehq.org, click on the "Last Modified" column twice, that will bring the latest data to the top.

    Thanks to everyone who submitted data so far! We have enough reports for XP now, but any other version of Windows would be handy.

    Be sure to run this again when wine-1.0-rc3 comes out next week.

    Cheers,

    Jeremy