On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:34:10PM -0700, Joshua Penix wrote: > The problem with Wine is that regressions are very very common, and > newer doesn't always equal better. The Wine developers not only have > to reproduce Windows' API functionality, but they also have to > reproduce its bugs. It's not surprising for a newer release of Wine > to break apps that worked just fine in the previous release. That > seems to be what happened with Office 2000... if you look back to the > 0.9.5x reports, you'll see that people were getting it to work quite > well.
Wow. Sounds like a nightmare to develop. Then why don't Wine guys freeze old best version that runs Office? Seems that would generate a lot of happiness. > So suck it up and buy Crossover. You'll be able to do your work and > will be supporting Wine in the process. It's not like you have an > aversion to proprietary software, or you wouldn't be trying to run > Office in the first place. You are assuming I run Office. I never said I did. Chris -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
