Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by coldpie » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

Re: Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by allan_s » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 8:49 PM UTC

Thanks a lot to the team for these improvements

As a normal man, in addition to the technical changelog, what would be interesting for me to have is a list of software that can now be run by wine, or that have a significantly improved experience with this version compare to 1.7

Re: Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by kencausey » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 8:55 PM UTC

allan_s wrote: post #2

Thanks a lot to the team for these improvements As a normal man, in addition to the technical changelog, what would be interesting for me to have is a list of software that can now be run by wine, or that have a significantly improved experience with this version compare to 1.7

There is a lot of software for Windows. The time it takes to test even a small set of software is likely significantly larger than producing a new release.

Re: Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 9:07 PM UTC

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Re: Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by allan_s » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 9:08 PM UTC

kencausey wrote: post #3

allan_s wrote: post #2

Thanks a lot to the team for these improvements As a normal man, in addition to the technical changelog, what would be interesting for me to have is a list of software that can now be run by wine, or that have a significantly improved experience with this version compare to 1.7

There is a lot of software for Windows. The time it takes to test even a small set of software is likely significantly larger than producing a new release.

sure, I'm not saying the team should take the burden of doing the testing on a given set of windows software (even the 100 most popular one, whatever it means)

What I wanted to express is that, as I guess the development is followed by a community of people to which it has been said that future version of wine will fix their current compatibility problem, they may have got some feedback of said people "hey cool now whateversoft version x.y works" and gathered a list of said software, especially if it does include some big names.

Re: Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by yareally » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 9:13 PM UTC

allan_s wrote: post #5

kencausey wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a lot of software for Windows. The time it takes to test even a small set of software is likely significantly larger than producing a new release.

sure, I'm not saying the team should take the burden of doing the testing on a given set of windows software (even the 100 most popular one, whatever it means) What I wanted to express is that, as I guess the development is followed by a community of people to which it has been said that future version of wine will fix their current compatibility problem, they may have got some feedback of said people "hey cool now w…

> "What I wanted to express is that, as I guess the development is followed by a community of people to which it has been said that future version of wine will fix their current compatibility problem, they may have got some feedback of said people "hey cool now whateversoft version x.y works" and gathered a list of said software, especially if it does include some big names."

I thought that's what this[1] was for.

[1] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

Re: Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by bcrescimanno » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 9:17 PM UTC

allan_s wrote: post #2

Thanks a lot to the team for these improvements As a normal man, in addition to the technical changelog, what would be interesting for me to have is a list of software that can now be run by wine, or that have a significantly improved experience with this version compare to 1.7

Given the way Wine versioning works, I wouldn't expect any significant changes from the latest 1.7.x cycle. Wine uses the same versioning system that Linux used prior to (and perhaps after, I'm not sure) the 3.0 release. The second number represents a stable version if it's even or an unstable development version if it's odd. Odd releases are used to "build up" new features towards an even-numbered release.

Re: Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by allan_s » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 9:23 PM UTC

yareally wrote: post #6

allan_s wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sure, I'm not saying the team should take the burden of doing the testing on a given set of windows software (even the 100 most popular one, whatever it means) What I wanted to express is that, as I guess the development is followed by a community of people to which it has been said that future version of wine will fix their current compatibility problem, they may have got some feedback of said people "hey cool now w…

> "What I wanted to express is that, as I guess the development is followed by a community of people to which it has been said that future version of wine will fix their current compatibility problem, they may have got some feedback of said people "hey cool now whateversoft version x.y works" and gathered a list of said software, especially if it does include some big names." I thought that's what this[1] was for. [1…

yes, that's what it is for outside of the release cycle to know if a given software work. But here it's an announcement where you explain changes to the community between previous version and this version. So I was thinking that it may have been interesting to have a brief list of software from the database you've linked that have turned form garbage to bronze etc.

Re: Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by allan_s » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 9:25 PM UTC

bcrescimanno wrote: post #7

allan_s wrote: post #2

Thanks a lot to the team for these improvements As a normal man, in addition to the technical changelog, what would be interesting for me to have is a list of software that can now be run by wine, or that have a significantly improved experience with this version compare to 1.7

Given the way Wine versioning works, I wouldn't expect any significant changes from the latest 1.7.x cycle. Wine uses the same versioning system that Linux used prior to (and perhaps after, I'm not sure) the 3.0 release. The second number represents a stable version if it's even or an unstable development version if it's odd. Odd releases are used to "build up" new features towards an even-numbered release.

Thanks for this information, I was thinking it was following semantic versionning and looking to the changelog I thought it was big changes.

Re: Wine 1.8 is released

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Post by lbenes » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 10:02 PM UTC

allan_s wrote: post #2

Thanks a lot to the team for these improvements As a normal man, in addition to the technical changelog, what would be interesting for me to have is a list of software that can now be run by wine, or that have a significantly improved experience with this version compare to 1.7

It's not in alpha like ReactOS. In my experience, most simple apps work well and many older games run perfectly. If there's something you want to run, check the app DB. It's complete and well maintained.

https://appdb.winehq.org/