From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 12 02:21:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6746616A40F for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:21:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDECA43D5D for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:21:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost.apl.washington.edu [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9C2Jel9003839; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:19:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9C2JeZH003838; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:19:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:19:40 -0700 From: Steve Kargl To: Igor Mozolevsky , g@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Message-ID: <20061012021940.GA3783@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20061011225348.GA16838@everest.sosdg.org> <20061011232316.GA2751@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <452D9305.5060901@sosdg.org> <40E10B8D-B3DB-4D53-9195-561B9DE50135@hybrid-lab.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40E10B8D-B3DB-4D53-9195-561B9DE50135@hybrid-lab.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine still unusable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:21:58 -0000 On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:07:48AM +0100, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > > I do like the FreeBSD community approach to bug reports - fix it > yourself and send us a patch! Having thought that PR stood for > Problem Report, it is becoming clear that it actually stands for > Problem Resolution!.. > It's simply reality. There are too few developers and too many bugs and feature requests. If someone has been waiting over a year for progress on a port and nothing has appeared, then it's probably easy to guess no one is working on that particular port. You have three choices: 1) Pay someone to fix, 2) fix it yourself, or 3) waiting until it appears from Kris' black box. -- Steve