On 11/10/06, Alan McKinnon <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 08:20, Bry Melvin wrote: > Guess I'll probably get flamed now, but my software testing has put > wine+winetools as more functional than wine or Crossover. At least > from a point of view of someone wanting to do Graphics production and > migrating from Win or OS/2 to Linux (and work predominately from a > GUI). Ah, you have specific needs. That changes everything.
Who doesn't have specific needs? :)
The wine/winetools debate has been going on for ages. Here's the summary: Wine is a project still in alpha. The devs want people to use wine itself and figure out where the bugs are. Winetools and even ies4linux are stop-gap measures to get around areas where wine is still not fully functional. The devs also want to receive traffic on how wine works/doesn't work, they don't want to have to handle traffic on winetools and the stuff it does. Winetools and ies4linus don't do anything unusual that the wine devs need to investigate - all they do is register heaps of native overrides where a wine lib is replaced by a real windows one nicked off a windows machine. Wine devs giving support on this list to winetools users is coutner-productive to the devs time as they (mostly) don't get paid for what they do. The goal is to get all Win32 functions correctly implemented in wine, not concentrate on the stop-gap measures.
That's the price of alpha, beta, and rc software. Fair, in my opinion. I was unsubscribed to the list for a few months, so I missed this debate, but it sounds fair.
So your readers are regular users. For them to get IE running *right now today*, they will get best results from Crossover or ies4linux. To get Office running, Crossover is easily the better solution. winetools may suit them better for other well known apps. In any event, they won't find much support for any of those solution on this list (whose purpose is to get wine itself debugged and working better). Reality check: Someday wine on it's own will be sufficient for Regular User Joe, but that day hasn't arrived yet. Hope this help clear up things a bit alan
I'd just like to add that purchasing Crossover _does_ in fact help wine development, as Crossover is a main developer of wine and their improvments go right back into wine. Dotan Cohen http://kubuntufaq.com http://fedorafaqs.com -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
