On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:34:05 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Sorry, Mike, I was lumping you guys in with Transgaming and Cedega (who > I'm pretty sure paid for some InstallShield something, as they seem to > be quite vocal about having licensed code that allows installers and > copy protection programs to work), but maybe even they didn't buy any > license from InstallShield specifically. TransGaming licensed some copy protection code. Unfortunately there is nothing InstallShield could give us to make it work - the code we need is controlled by Microsoft, not InstallShield :( > In any case, thanks for the clarification-- as you might be aware, it's > very difficult for a pure user to follow all the complexities of what > each type of Wine variant has done to enable certain features and > abilities, except in the most vague and general way-- information of > even a "PR-level" nature is pretty sparse. Which is why it's so > difficult to troubleshoot any problems, even for the clever among us, if > we aren't coders. Yes, I understand this. I really wish we were better at communicating this sort of thing but there's so much information it's hard to know where to begin. I maintain a mini FAQ here: http://bylands.dur.ac.uk/~mh/wine-faq.html linked to from the #winehq channel, which tends to contain more practical advice than what's on winehq.com, maybe it can prove useful. If you have *any* feedback on how the developers can communicate with the user base better, let's hear them! What sort of things do you want to know? If it's just a matter of understanding all the different variants, I guess we could prepare a chart to give a rough idea of the capabilities of each or something. But I'm really not sure what people want. thanks -mike _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
