It's good that POL is trying to help, and I've had many conversations with them in the past. They've always been friendly and interested in my suggestions. That said, the wine project can't support patched versions of wine. So there's always going to be a little dynamic tension between the two projects. (One thing POL isn't doing much of that would really help Wine is following http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting to pinpoint which wine change broke apps that used to work well with no patches. Wine user Wylda excels at this; see for instance http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21154 and http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22263 That would demonstrate a real commitment to helping Wine. It probably won't happen, since they have their hands full just keeping POL going, and most POL scripters don't have the motivation or training to do a real regression test. But it would be wonderful if I were wrong.)
