Tony Lambregts skrev:
Alexander N. Sørnes wrote:
Tony Lambregts skrev:
Mike McCormack wrote:
Actually it appears other share my altered sense of reality.
World Of Warcraft 1.3.0 is the top ranking "Gold" application, yet
it requires mfc42, msvcp60.dll and possibly some patches to run.
MS Money is also in the Gold list and requires DCOM95 and IE6.
Are you really sure people understand what your definition of Gold is?
Mike
Crap!!!
Well http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings spells
it out that gold is just that.
An application can be rated as Gold if it installs and runs "out of
the box".
Some maintainers may have a distorted or over optimistic opinion of
their application. So we need to clean that up and change these
"False Gold" applications to "Silver"
If anyone else knows of any other "False Gold" applications please
let us know. appdb@xxxxxxxxxx
Can we not add another rank for the out-of-the-box-running
applications? Most people will be interested in how well an
application can be made to run, and will not care if that means
adding a single DLL override, especially if the DLL is installed
together with the application.
Leaving just two levels to tell how well an application runs does not
give a good overview; there are for example many games that work
flawlessly in single-player mode, but not at all in multi-player
mode; and some require a no-CD crack.
Well as I've said before rating system sucks by definition. Anyway
these are the current definitions for the ratings.
* Gold - An application can be rated as Gold if it installs and runs
"out of the box"
* Silver - If an application needs DLL overrides (native DLL's from a
Windows installation) to install and run but runs flawlessly
otherwise, then it can be rated as silver. There should be an
accompanying "How-To" written to allow users to get this application
to run.
* Bronze - Bronze Applications may have bugs in them and require DLL
overrides. If the program can be used as it was intended but is
missing features then the can be rated as Bronze.
* Garbage - An app gets this rating if it can not be used for the
purpose it was designed. There should be at least one bug report in
bugzilla if an app gets this rating.
So lets say that we add another level and call it "platinum" and we
reserve it for "Works out of box", what would you gain? Gold becomes
Platinum, Silver becomes Gold and ... ???
--
Tony Lambregts
Then we would have
* Platinum: Application works flawlessly out-of-the-box
* Gold: Application works flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other
settings, crack etc.
* Silver: Application works excellently for 'normal' use; a game works
fine in single-player but not in multi-player, Windows Media Player
works fine as a plug-in and stand-alone player, but can't handle DRM etc.
* Bronze: Application works, but it has some issues, even for normal
use; a game may not redraw properly or display fonts in wrong colours,
be a much slower than it should etc.
* Garbage: Application doesn't start, or starts but has so many errors
that it is nearly impossible to use it
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