ubuntu and music

[Derek Broughton]

(``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:

> Olá Derek e a todos.
> 
> On Thursday 18 September 2008 16:26:07 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
>> 
>> > Olá Neil e a todos.
>> > 
>> Not to make light of Scott's work, but that's not even CLOSE to being
>> up-to-date.  The current version of Wine is 1.1.4.  This is what Neil was
>> talking about.  In fact, if you follow the instructions on WineHQ, you
>> GET Scott Ritchie's build of Wine 1.1.4 packaged for Hardy, so apparently
>> it's you who don't know what you're talking about.
>> 
>> Now note, Wine does not consider this a stable build - it is, as Neil
>> suggested, only for those who want to be on the cutting edge.
> 
> PPL were complaining about FF3 beta in Hardy, and now you want WINE too?
> lol

Don't be ridiculous.  There's a huge difference between putting Firefox
3-beta (or Wine 1.1.4) in Hardy, and giving adventurous users the option of
getting them from upstream.  One of the beauties of Wine is that it has
always provided a properly packaged Ubuntu version of its most recent
release.
 
> Ok just kidding, I'm CCing Scott, and let him reply himself on this. That
> way we get the best info, ok?

I don't know why he'd bother.  He packages Wine, and puts the latest builds
on WineHQ and you just told people first of all, not to use those builds,
and secondly told Neil to stop even suggesting people use those builds. 
And now you think the packager is going to back you up.  Why would he
package them, if he didn't want anyone to use them?

The simple fact is, the OP wanted to use a particular Windows-only program,
and may be unable to run it with the Hardy version of Wine (it"s not
entirely clear from his post whether he"s tried wine at all), which leaves
him with two options - run it with Windows or try the _current_ carefully
packaged version of Wine.
-- 
derek