Wine 5.13 Released - Fixes 15 Year Old Bug To Support Windows NT INI Files To Registry Re-Mapping

[nuetzel]

Yesterday Fedora updated it's distribution of wine (staging) in the official repo from 5.10 to 5.12 and it completely broke for me. Nothing runs anymore. Anyone else having the same problem?

For now I'm resorting to running any windows programs on proton or Lutris' wine distributions. Glad to have many alternatives nowadays.

5.12 broke many things.
5.13 solved most (all?), here. --- I've used wine-snapshot (4.0.git.xxxx) in the meantime.
All staging, of course ;-)

[TemplarGR]

Are you aware that Wine is open source? It means you can implement it as soon as you want to.

Are you aware that even Linus Torvalds himself can't code everything he uses? No, obviously not. Are you aware that opensource desktop works by people contributing in various areas and not everyone contributing everywhere? Obviously not.

But trolls are gonna troll like idiots anyway.

[schmidtbag]

No matter when it happened you'd still ask the same question.

The simple answer is that it was bound to happen at some point.

No.... I wouldn't. If it was fixed 14 years ago I'd think nothing of it. This problem is so old that I can't help but wonder if it's actually still relevant, hence my question.

[Weasel]

I'm not just curious why this patch was so late, but more surprised it was applied now.

No matter when it happened you'd still ask the same question.

The simple answer is that it was bound to happen at some point.

[schmidtbag]

I'm not just curious why this patch was so late, but more surprised it was applied now. Is there a modern high-demand application that needed this fixed?

[Vistaus]

Are you aware that Wine is open source? It means you can implement it as soon as you want to.

Then maybe you can enlighten us as to what the implementation should look like as it's not currently possible: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42284#c1

[Sethox]

Are you aware that Wine is open source? It means you can implement it as soon as you want to.

Deja vu. Good one, a classic.



I pulled it down but haven't really used it. They had problems with .11 which is why that wasn't made available so maybe they missed something or maybe wine has a regression for you.

mastermind is right though, besides the more free spirited people help out the faster the end-user gets it's non-essential software up and running.. or you know, we can sit and wait like entitled brats thinking it's either late or too late.

[ed31337]

Just how many decades and how many developers put in efforts towards bringing WINE to fruition?

Microsoft Windows was well and truly the black hole of death for engineering resources.

[kylew77]

All I want is my Direct X 9 games from the early 2000s to work without any issues and my copy of Office XP and 2003 to keep working.

[pal666]

If we want a full shift to wayland, then support for the hardware needs to happen. (I'm aware nvidia is to blame here)

i want full shift to wayland and i don't care about novideo customers