I must really say I agree with you here, Jeremy. I think what Dan is doing for wine is excellent, and I for one appreciate him keeping us abreast of his efforts and the problems he encounters. The apps he's working with are really important for a lot of people, and as such they probably need our attention so we can make Wine a more viable alternative. I don't think Dan is spamming wine-devel at all; in fact I'd like to see him keep letting us know about all of these things.
Just my two cents... James On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 09:27 -0600, Jeremy White wrote: > > BTW is there are some particular reason that you have to cc every > > single bug that you file to wine-devel mailing as well? I'm sorry, but > > quality of those bugs are not that good really to go directly to > > wine-devel list. With this particular bug you could at least try to find > > what is that program looks at to decide if you do have IE installed or > > not. > > I certainly don't want wine-devel to turn into wine-users, > but I think you are wrong to lump Dan's emails into that category. > > Dan is a very capable developer; he may not be the most > accomplished Wine hacker, but he is not without his chops. > Note that many of the @ucla.edu patches that come to wine-devel > are from his students. > > Further, I think that Dan is triaging issues that are > of fairly critical interest to Wine. > > For example, IE dependence is a very hard problem for Wine; > a lot of programs have that as an issue. I, for one, am > grateful to Dan for running with the Windows version > of Firefox, as it helps us be better ready to understand > how to use Firefox to solve that problem. > > Further, I happen to know that the Munich considered > using Wine for their desktop migration, and they felt that > Wine was 'awful'; so it is very interesting to me, personally, > to explore why that might be. > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > >
