hair-pulling frustration

[Richmond]

WINE has an interesting release model:  https://www.winehq.org/

Every 2 weeks, dead on time, they release another beta version,
and whenever (and 'whenever' can mean anything between 2 weeks to 2 
years) they
release a stable version.

The beta versions are labelled like this: 1.7.1, 1.7.2 and so on.

The stable releases always have an even number in second place, so 1.6, 
1.8 etc.

They advise anybody except for nutty fruitcakes like myself to stick with
the stable releases and explicitly state that they accept NO responsibility
for anything the beta versions may do.

Richmond.