Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Dan Kegel
Louis wrote: > I think it's important to add a note for the user that wine needs a bunch of > tweaking. It shouldn't need any tweaking at all for platinum apps. Any apps rated platinum that need tweaking are misrated, and we should bop them down to gold. - Dan

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Louis Lenders
Dan Kegel kegel.com> writes: > > When making announcements about Wine 1.0, it's useful > to include an objective measure of how well it works for > the average app, one that correctly conveys both > Wine's promise and its limitations. > > Our current appdb stats are: > > Platinum 1500 > G

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Scott Ritchie
Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: >> "Of the apps we have tested with Wine, about 20% work well, >> and about another 20% work but have some glitches." >> >> > Just my opinion, but that's a terrible idea to put in the 1.0 > announcement. The impression I get after reading this is (1) wine is > full of glit

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Markus
On Sunday 25 May 2008 20:41:51 Dan Kegel wrote: > One more try: > "Wine 1.0 runs apps like Photoshop CS2, World of Warcraft, Firefox 2, > and a thousand other apps (see http://appdb.winehq.org) well. > Try it on your favorite app and see if it works for you; the smaller > the app, the more likely i

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Adam Petaccia
While I'd like to stay positive, this report assumes that all users who have an application that doesn't work immediately run out and report it to the AppDB as garbage (and while I know the same is true for apps that do work, I'd assume its a much higher proportion of the the former). On Sun, 2008

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5/25/08, Ivan Gyurdiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about this for more positive yet realistic phrasing: > > "Of the apps we have tested with Wine, about half work well > > enough to try, and of those, half work well enough to use routinely. > > In particular, Photoshop CS2, World of Warcr

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Ivan Gyurdiev
> How about this for more positive yet realistic phrasing: > "Of the apps we have tested with Wine, about half work well > enough to try, and of those, half work well enough to use routinely. > In particular, Photoshop CS2, World of Warcraft, Firefox 2, and many > small apps run very well. .NET b

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Ivan Gyurdiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Of the apps we have tested with Wine, about 20% work well, >> and about another 20% work but have some glitches." > > Just my opinion, but that's a terrible idea to put in the 1.0 announcement. > The impression I get afte

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread leszek
Is there somewhere a graph showing the evolution of the appdb stats over time ? -Leszek Le dimanche 25 mai 2008 à 03:28 -0700, Dan Kegel a écrit : > When making announcements about Wine 1.0, it's useful > to include an objective measure of how well it works for > the average app, one that correct

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Ivan Gyurdiev
> "Of the apps we have tested with Wine, about 20% work well, > and about another 20% work but have some glitches." > > Just my opinion, but that's a terrible idea to put in the 1.0 announcement. The impression I get after reading this is (1) wine is full of glitches, and (2) it's being rele

Re: How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes
> When making announcements about Wine 1.0, it's useful > to include an objective measure of how well it works for > the average app, one that correctly conveys both > Wine's promise and its limitations. > > Our current appdb stats are: > > Platinum1500 > Gold1763 > Silver

How to phrase Wine's success rate

2008-05-25 Thread Dan Kegel
When making announcements about Wine 1.0, it's useful to include an objective measure of how well it works for the average app, one that correctly conveys both Wine's promise and its limitations. Our current appdb stats are: Platinum1500 Gold1763 Silver 1194 Bronze