Wine-Staging 1.9.19 Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine-Staging 1.9.19 Released

Wine-Staging 1.9.19 was released this weekend as the latest experimental patch-set atop of the newest bi-weekly Wine release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-Staging-1.9.19

[boltronics]

I've been waiting to be able to create a 32-bit prefix in an existing directory for years, ever since 64-bit apps under Wine became a practical thing. This is great news. Hopefully it doesn't get stuck in staging for too long.

It often feels like some things in Staging will just stay there indefinitely, which is really frustrating for some bugs (eg. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40271 which has prevented Uplay from working for months (the root issue was reported years ago).

[axfelix]

There's not much reason not to run staging at this point, though -- one of those (relatively many) Linux apps wherein upstream has rarely if ever been "stable" enough to not want to be on bleeding edge.