2008/6/21 miciomax <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>:> Linux will NEVER have a native autocad version, at least as long as 90% of users use Windows.> Autodesk made 3 important choices that made impossible to port his products to Linux with a manageable (I.E. rentable...) effort :>> 1) Hard usage of MFC> 2) (totally unneeded) usage of .NET> 3) (absolutely unneeded) usage of DIRECTX>> Porting Autocad natively to Linux would mean drop about 10 years of development and restart with a portable toolkit, which could be QT, GTK or whathever.> Do you really think they'd ever think to do such a job for less than 10% potential users ?> The ONLY viable way for us to have autocad is through wine.> Better would be to have a (big) team of developers and make an opensource alternative... but all what have been tryed in past years aborted miserabily.>> Max> You and I do not know when the next clean-sheet version of AutoCADwill be designed. Even if it is in 10 year's time, let that be after10 years of people asking for a Linux version. It takes literallythree minutes to write to them to express your interest, and it couldsave future engineers (yourself and I included) lots of headaches. Ifwe don't speak up, then the next version of AutoCAD just might notwork with wine, and then what will you do? Buy Windows? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.comhttp://gibberish.co.ilא-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת; A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
