Sorry to jump into the discussion at this late date, but while I run Wine occasionally for some software I get in my email - no, not viruses, thank goodness! - and some other software that I get with family photo CDs, etc, I haven't done anything with it lately, apart from installing an old Win32 compiler I was given. I still don't know whether it works properly - I know most of lcc-win32 and OpenWatcom work happily :-)
I was wondering, there is Wine, there is CrossOver, and there is Cedega. CrossOver I know contribute their source back, I don't know about Cedega, and I (apparently) can't run both Wine and CrossOver at one and the same time, I can't even install both (apparently - I could be wrong on this ;). Is there any project to solve the Wine/CrossOver dual installation problem/question? Any for a putative Wine/Cedega dual installation? Any suggestions? Thanks Wesley Parish On Friday 30 March 2007 07:21, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > Hi, > > Getting common applications working is NOT the goal of wine. The goal of > wine is to write an open source reimplementation of the Win32 api. Those > two goals are related, but not exactly the same. The difference is how to > deal with hacks that are known to be incorrect but happen to fix an > application. Those are not accepted into wine, no matter which application > they fix. > > CrossOver uses Wine under its hood, and CrossOver's wine tree contains some > hacks to make Microsoft Office and other popular applications happy. > However, CodeWeavers contributes patches back and employs many major > developers to work on various parts of wine, including Alexandre Julliard, > Robert Shearman, Jakec Caban, me, and many others. > > Neither Wine nor CrossOver are specifically targeted at games or office > applications. CrossOver supports some games(like Half-Life 1 and 2, World > of Warcraft, Prey), and my job is to work on Wine's Direct3D support. > > I won't be able to convice you that the whole thing is not a conspicary > because I am a codeweavers employee, but maybe searching the wine changelog > for @codeweavers.com can convice you? (Though many codeweavers employees > use their own private mail address to send patches). > > Regarding the hacks to get Microsoft Office running, the modified Wine > source in CrossOver is publically available at > http://www.codeweavers.com/products/source . You are welcome to locate the > hacks that fix Microsoft Office(I think their authors will kindly assist > you with that), clean them up and send them to wine-patches for inclusion. > (on a sidenode, a few weeks ago I noticed that some mirror had a broken > copy of the archive which did not unpack completely. I think it should be > fixed by now. So if the archive doesn't unzip its not conspiracy, it is a > fault of the provider of our mirrors) > > Hope my explanations answer your questions, > Stefan -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.