On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 08:35 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi - probably my first comment after lurking here for a few weeks. Is > there anything that a user type (I'm not a developer in any sense) can > do in this area?
I'm afraid they nearly all involve patching Wine, so not with this set of suggestions no. > I run Windows and have lots of apps I want to run > under Wine. I've been entering info as I figue it out in the Wine bug > database, but so far that isn't helping me get my programs running. Right. Unfortunately finding bugs isn't too hard, it's fixing them that's the hard part. > I've wondered a number of times about installing Windows programs > under Windows and extracting all of the changed registry entries and > then reporting them somehow. > > Is this possible? It is possible. It is unlikely to help in most cases. > I'm not sure the apps I want to run are the ones you all would all > 'common', but they are common to follks doing audio work. (recording, > writing, etc.) In the end would this be helpful? Sure, if you figure out how to make apps work feel free to post information somewhere explaining how, or you could write a little script to automate it as has been done with IE. thanks -mike