87865 – Please could you put some older wine versions in portage.

Bug 87865 - Please could you put some older wine versions in portage.

Summary: Please could you put some older wine versions in portage.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Wine Maintainers

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Reported:	2005-04-03 20:49 UTC by Robert Persson
Modified:	2005-11-08 22:47 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Robert Persson 2005-04-03 20:49:21 UTC

Please could you put some outdated wine versions in portage.  Hard-masked would be OK.  This is because, at the moment, new versions of wine break compatibility with windows applications at least as often as they acquire it.  There are also Linux applications that are built to work with certain versions of wine.

First of all, the wine versions from the middle of 2004 are supposed to be generally more usable than more recent versions, which are highly experimental.

Secondly, wine-20031118 is the only version of wine known to work reliably with vstserver, a very useful musician's tool.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Honza 2005-07-16 02:14:25 UTC

Is there some list which states which version of wine is good for what ?

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-07-16 18:03:31 UTC

i dont know of such a list

could someone post versions of what they want ?  all older versions of wine i
pretty much have to rewrite so i'd like to only do what people are interested in :P

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-11-08 22:47:40 UTC

post a list of versions you actually want