[cw-discuss] Dropped Support

[Jeremy White]

Hi Manaen,

Hmm.  That's an interesting question.  The salesman in me wanted to
put on a hat and say:  "We'll never do that!".

That flows from the nice reality of Wine - it, as a project,
has no corporate agenda, no need to force you to upgrade.
Further, the code is always there, so if something worked once,
it can always be made to work again.

But that may be unrealistic.

The truth is that the legion of people working on Wine is
relatively small, so we can really only focus on things
that a broad range of people request.

And as that range of interests fade, things may regress,
making an older application stop running.

Now there is nothing technical that would keep anyone
(you, me, anyone) from making that application work again,
but for a general user, that may not be sufficient comfort.

If it is any comfort, though, we *hate* regressions, and
we actively want things to run forever, even win 3.11 apps.

Hope that helps answer your question.

Cheers,

Jeremy


Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> This might be a silly question but I feel compelled to ask it.
> Microsoft does not support products forever and I was wondering if at
> some point WINE/Codeweavers might have to start making decisions about
> what won't run (or should be dropped) to get the latest and greatest
> new software running.  As an example I personally really wouldn't
> expect anything from the old win 3.11 days to run under wine.
> 
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