"I'll also encourage everybody who had given up in disgust to give us another chance"
<- must be talking about me 😉

And me, and many others.

I got pretty active in the WinePulse debate for a while, before giving up in disgust.

Here is the wine-staging announcement: http://www.wine-staging.com/news/2015-09-25-w … ntegration.html

When I switched to OS X and wanted to get a lot of Windows stuff working I stumbled over a couple of OS X-only bugs and reported them. Then needed to defend against "you are probably using a third party built and thus most likely not a valid bug" (I used a direct source build) or "works here on linux x and linux y, must be a user error". Defending against one usually lead to hearing that other thing.
Then after spending time to regression test and finding the breaking commit, I was muted only to see the fix many months later in exactly the same place as the breaking bug.
No, dealing with Wine was annoying and only lead me to use it as little as possible...
Maybe that changes now, let's see, I'm a bit doubtful since it's still the same devs...

Yeah, that's pretty lame.

Sounds like they're going to do a better job of producing binaries, so you may not need to build it yourself.