i second the plea. Autocad is one of those applications that many windows users NEED to have working to even consider a change to linux, even at the enterprise level many would switch for it. the other day i had a friend in Naval Engineering ask me if it was possible to use Autocad in wine so he could use Linux, i had to sadly put his hopes down.
2009/4/28 Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com> > Hi all, > > I've been watching the DIB engine work that has been going on in bug > 421. It looks like Max has made massive progress getting Autocad > working by the sound of it, almost perfectly and also improvements in > Starcraft have been reported. However, he accepts (and Alexandre has > confirmed) that neither of the two approaches he has tried is the > right one and he believes (as do others) that any correct approach > requires massive changes to GDI32, which if I read it right, no one > seems to know how to do incrementally. > > Autocad is one of those apps, like Photoshop, which people need to be > able to use and won't switch away from Windows without it. In fact, > Autocad more so than Photoshop because there is no (almost) feature > equivalent alternative available (like the GIMP for Photoshop). So > it's frustrating to know that someone has it working, but vanilla Wine > isn't going to see it working in the near future. > > My question is this: does anyone know how to incrementally implement > the necessary changes? Is it even possible? If it's not possible, is > it work considering branching Wine to implement it correctly, for > merging back into trunk at a later stage once it's been thoroughly > tested? I'm wondering if Wine's development process just doesn't allow > for a big change like this, and perhaps it's the development model > that is the reason bug 421 is so long standing? > > Any thoughts, I just want to spur some discussion on this because it > seems that everyone that attempts a DIB engine hits a wall :) > > Luke. > > >