Well a lot of gamers use wine, wine is meant to be a general "run this windows app" program where as Codeweavers, and Cedega work case by case with teams to get specific apps working. If you have a bug, submit it, otherwise add data to bugs in the DB, and eventually it will all work out.
On 3/28/07, Sasan Iman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First of all, let me say that I am not a developer. But I have been interested in Wine since early 2003. The thing that has always made me scratch my head is that the Windows software that motivates me to install Wine on my linux system (i.e. MS OFfice, etc.) has never worked with wine in a reliable manner. Meanwhile, Codeweaver has always had MS Office working on Wine. Now shouldn't getting the most common windows software working on Wine in an idiot-proof (meaning I can get it to work) manner be the highest priority for Wine developers? Instead, this is left to CodeWeavers and others. I know that if you fiddle around with the stock release long enough you can get MS Office working on Wine as I have on a number of occasions, but shouldn't making this work for everyone be the highest priority for getting Wine to be adopted more widely?! Or is Wine more targeted to gamers which is mostly what I read about on WineHQ? I just can't understand why the more common application are left to a commercial company. My conspiratorial side makes me want to think this is a conspiracy but I am sure there is valid technical and logistical reasons for it so I am asking you guys. Thanks. Sasan
-- Cheers, Bryan
