Everybody, we switched in the middle of the discussion to wine-users. Short prehistory - see below. Keith suggested help as an application owner for a few CAD applications. He already successfully runs these applications on Wine and published an excellent description here: http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ > > That's great to have interested vendor! > > i thought so, i've contacted all of the venders that > i was able to get theiir > stuff running, so far the only ones to show an > interest has been > intellicad/cadopia, and generalcadd. Some vendors are interested in porting his applicaiton to Linux. The applications already run fairly well under Wine, so I think it would be relatively easy to port it on Linux. Below I describe where to find information about porting an application with Wine: > > 1) See "Winelib User Guide", "Packagers Guide" at > > http://docs.winehq.com/ > > Information there is not complete, outdated but > can > > give you an idea. > > i have no room to complain, my page is rather > outdated as well. > > > 2) Give wine developers know what is needed. Ask > for > > information on wine-users. If you see some > problems > > with documentation, Wine itself - let us know. > Submit > > bug reports, vote for existing bugs, discuss these > > issues on the mailing list. > > Be active - your feedback is very important and > will > > direct developers efforts. The applications already run under Wine fairly well, so I would expect it is relatively easy to port them to Linux. Anybody wants to add anything? [skipped] > > I definitely will answer your private emails, but > I'd > > strongly prefer to have public discission on > > wine-users when this is possible. You will get > much > > more help from other developers and users. > > ok, i'll try to keep it there Keith, thanks! Andriy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
