On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see how we can possibly have a tested release ready every time > some distro decides to ship.
That wasn't the proposal. The proposal was to ship every 6 months, and to pick a release date that made some sense relative to any emerging rhythm in distro releases. FWIW, Fedora also seems to be on a six month release schedule; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule says 8 released in November, and 9 will release in May. > On the contrary, since distros don't give a > damn about Wine and usually do their best to break it (page zero issue > anyone?) That wasn't the distro; that was an upstream kernel vulnerability fix announced in February, http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Patching_CVE-2008-0600_Local_Root_Exploit > we are better off releasing after a major distro release so > that we have a chance to find and fix the latest breakages first. If we want to catch breakages like the recent one early, we shouldn't wait for the distros; we should run Wine with each new release of the Linux kernel. > It's still very much a feature-based model, only of course the desirable > features have been shifting as Microsoft shipped new stuff and people > wanted to run new apps before we supported the old ones properly... You assert Wine's releases will be feature-based, but I don't understand your reasoning yet. - Dan