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11/21/2014
by André Hentschel
Issue: 380

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This is the 380th issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at www.winehq.org


This week, 132 posts consumed 99 K. There were 20 different contributors. 12 (60%) posted more than once. 8 (40%) posted last week too.

The top 5 posters of the week were:

  1. 6 posts in 11K by sebastian at fds-team.de (Sebastian Lackner)
  2. 5 posts in 4K by hverbeet at gmail.com (Henri Verbeet)
  3. 5 posts in 19K by stefandoesinger at gmail.com (Stefan Dösinger)
  4. 4 posts in 3K by bunglehead at gmail.com (Nikolay Sivov)
  5. 4 posts in 6K by 00cpxxx at gmail.com (Bruno Jesus)

Open Source .Net Archive

As you can read in the news .Net get's open sourced, but how does that affect Wine or more specific wine-mono?

Vincent writes:

We're mostly behind in higher-level class libraries like winforms, WPF, and the vb.net runtime, which afaik are still not available under a free software license.

And as of now it seems there is no plan to open source winforms, WPF and other client stacks. This and also the fact that mscoree won't be opened makes it quite unattractive for Wine.


Weekly AppDB/Bugzilla Status Changes Archive
AppDB / Bugzilla
Bugzilla Changes:

Category Total Bugs Last Issue Total Bugs This Issue Net Change
UNCONFIRMED 3439 3222 -217
NEW 3638 3572 -66
ASSIGNED 15 15 0
REOPENED 118 117 -1
RESOLVED 217 465 +248
CLOSED 30090 30201 +111
TOTAL OPEN 7210 6926 -284
TOTAL 37517 37592 +75



AppDB Application Status Changes

*Disclaimer: These lists of changes are automatically generated by information entered into the AppDB. These results are subject to the opinions of the users submitting application reviews. The Wine community does not guarantee that even though an application may be upgraded to 'Gold' or 'Platinum' in this list, that you will have the same experience and would provide a similar rating.

Updates by App Maintainers

Application Old Status/Version New Status/Version Change
DomDomSoft Manga Downloader 5 Gold (1.7.18) Platinum (1.7.30)
+1
TrackMania Nations Forever Gold (1.7.17) Platinum (1.7.30)
+1
Adobe Photoshop CC (32 bit) Silver (1.7.22) Gold (1.7.28)
+1
Nicolas Eymerich Inquisitor: Book 1 The Plague 1 Garbage (1.7.27) Gold (1.7.31)
+3
Gameforge Live 2.0.10 2.0.4 Platinum (1.7.21) Bronze (1.7.26)
-3
Skype 6.x Garbage (1.7.18) Bronze (1.7.31)
+1
Total Change
+4

Updates by the Public

Application Old Status/Version New Status/Version Change
Ableton Live 9.x Garbage (1.7.13) Platinum (1.7.30)
+4
Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator 2.0 Garbage (1.7.15) Platinum (1.7.26)
+4
Battle Realms 1.50q Silver (1.5.3) Platinum (1.7.30)
+2
Cinema 4D R16 Bronze (1.7.29) Platinum (1.7.31)
+3
Falcon 4 BMS 4.32 Update 3 Silver (1.4.1) Platinum (1.6.2)
+2
Heroes of the Storm Alpha Gold (1.7.28) Platinum (1.7.30)
+1
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest Garbage (1.3.10) Platinum (1.7.29)
+4
Paint Shop Pro 7.x Garbage (1.6.1) Platinum (1.7.30)
+4
StarCraft II Current Gold (1.7.30) Platinum (1.7.31)
+1
Unreal Tournament All Bronze (1.5.29) Platinum (1.7.30)
+3
ArchiCAD 12 Bronze (1.6.1) Gold (1.6.2)
+2
Ragnarok Online Private Server Clients Garbage (1.5.23) Gold (1.7.30)
+3
2Star Wars: The Old Republic 1.5-2.0 - Free to Pla... Bronze (1.7.21) Gold (1.7.31)
+2
Fallout 3 1.7 and GOTY Platinum (1.7.28) Silver (1.7.30)
-2
Frogger Windows Garbage (1.4.1) Silver (1.7.29)
+2
Need for Speed: Underground Demo Garbage (1.1.39) Silver (1.7.30)
+2
Adobe Reader 11.x Gold (1.7.30) Bronze (1.7.31)
-2
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 1.7 Garbage (1.7.21) Bronze (1.7.30)
+1
Disney's Toontown Online Rewritten Platinum (1.7.27) Bronze (1.7.30)
-3
League of Legends 4.x Gold (1.7.28) Bronze (1.7.30)
-2
SketchUp 2013 Gold (1.7.19) Bronze (1.7.30)
-2
Paint Shop Pro 7.x Silver (1.2.1) Garbage (1.6.1)
-2
RuneScape Client 1.2.3 Silver (1.7.29) Garbage (1.7.31)
-2
Soldat 1.6.x Gold (1.5.21) Garbage (1.7.29)
-3
Torchlight II Steam version Platinum (1.7.25) Garbage (1.7.29)
-4
Total Change
+18

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