Development vs stable series
Development vs stable series
Posted Nov 20, 2009 3:05 UTC (Fri) by mstefani (guest, #31644)In reply to: Development vs stable series by epa
Parent article: Wine 1.1.33 announced
Right, but if you *need* an application working and it works fine (good enough that you get your job done) with wine-1.0.1 why do you want to upgrade Wine for that app? Definitely not because the game you just bought needs the latest and greatest Wine snapshot from the git tree.
That's one of the fundamental differences between Wine and Linux: you can run fairly easy(*) multiple Wine instances/versions in parallel without them stomping on each others feet. There is no trade-off to be made between "use the latest kernel that supports my builtin WLAN card but breaks my X" and "have a stable X but use an extra USB WLAN card".
(*) Basically use a separate WINEPREFIX for the app and install Wine into that too. Finish it off with a short shell script that sets the PATH and WINEPREFIX environment and the job is done.