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olive

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devellopement version of wine is the default

The version of wine in archlinux is 1.3.6 which is a development version (the stable version is 1.2). Usually archlinux package the last stable version of available software. Why is it not the case here. Note that in this particular case I might agree with the packager since by experience I would class all version of wine as unstable. But I would like to know...

Allan

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Re: devellopement version of wine is the default

That was decded post 1.0 wine release.  The developmental version has better program compatibility so we go with that.

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ngoonee

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Re: devellopement version of wine is the default

And while this may or may not have influenced that decision, the fact is that 'wine' in the big distros refers to 1.3.x currently while there's normally a package such as 'wine-stable' referring to 1.2.

Even on wine's own forums the first troubleshooting question they ask is 'what version?' and then they tell you to update to latest rather than to stable.

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ChoK

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Re: devellopement version of wine is the default

Also wine is not alone in this, currently nvidia in Arch is beta, and mplayer is svn.

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wonder

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Re: devellopement version of wine is the default

Also wine is not alone in this, currently nvidia in Arch is beta, and mplayer is svn.

nvidia from extra is not beta. is the latest stable.  http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606 right now a beta driver doesn't exist

mplayer is a bit special. the developers suggests to use it straight from svn because the "released" versions are way to out of date

Last edited by wonder (2010-11-02 11:23:03)

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doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

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Re: devellopement version of wine is the default

Wine is different than most normal programs. It's in constant development, and in general, each release is better than the previous one. Sure, it might occasionally break some programs (hasn't happened to anything I've used with it), but at the same time makes it compatible with more programs.

I know somewhere in their release notes or something it shows the changes in app ratings to show how much each version improves over the last, and every time I've looked at that it's always an improvement.