Reality check

[John Smith]

There was a discussion here about 2 months ago, where I asked for a way to 
embed WINE config strings into Win32 executable (for example, as string 
resources). I was told that it is better to fix the problem rather than to 
create workarounds, and that fixing bugs is trivial and takes at most 2-3 
days as soon as it is reproducible.

I didn't argue much then but made a little experiment to prove my point. The 
point is the following:
THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IN GETTING BUG FIXED IS TO GET SOMEBODY WORK ON IT.
The same applies both to commercial environments and to open source ones 
equally. Experiment
illustrates it very well:

I've found an application that experiences the problem with sympthoms which 
are very similar to ours,
can be installed in 5 minutes and the problem can be reproduced in 3 clicks. 
And I've opened a bug in
WINE's bugzilla:  #3270 (another one #3269 was opened for another 
incompatibility).  Result is the following: IN 6 WEEKS NOBODY EVEN TOOK A 
LOOK AT BOTH THOSE BUGS.

Welcome to the real world

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