hi all ! I'm going to describe a new concept. A very controversial one.
Usage Scenario: We (the OSS community) have a great website copier, named "httrack", with 4 versions of it: 1. httrack - this is the engine + text-mode (console) menu-based frontend. Stable. 2. WinHTTrack - desktop version of the above with Windows GUI. Stable and mature. But we can't use it without an emulator. (read: Wine) 3. WebHTTrack - Linux version with Web-based GUI - buggy version - not recommended. 4. KHTTrack - a KDE frontend to httrack. unmaintained & alpha. The problem: 1. httrack is stable, but it works only in console mode. 3 and 4 are both unstable, so I would vote against including them in the distro. 2. This looks interesting.... Do you remember "Google Picasa" ? They have built a Windows-only package, optimized it for wine, and pooof ! it works on Linux ! In case of WinHTTrack, The main advantage of doing this, is that we receive both stable and mature product. I think there *can* be a new class of Linux applications, that follow the "Google Picasa" storyline, Namely: Windows applications, that are tested and developed for Wine ! They could get packaged for openSUSE distro, as all the components are Open-Source, and in their rpm dependency database, there could be only one thing: "wine" ! The main problem with Wine, is that not all Windows software works on it, but this problem is resolved, when Windows software is targetted at "Wine". With such an approach wine makes it for a stable platform. Both Wine and applications, such as WinHTTrack are open-source, and if that application gets running stable on wine, we could really create such a package. That package could even modify some of wine's parameters to work better, and integrate into openSUSE better. What do you think of this new, revolutionary, concept ? This is a real usage scenario, link: (Please discuss here, not in Bugzilla.) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264686 P.S. The Wine team think they are: " Wine is not emulator " while I think that wine is the: " WINdows Emulator" -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
