[Bug 34730] Wine can no longer execute unix programs

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34730

Emmanuel Charpentier <emm.charpentier at free.fr> changed:

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--- Comment #20 from Emmanuel Charpentier <emm.charpentier at free.fr> ---
Well ... I happen to have an "interesting" use case. Yes, it's a bit of a
corner case, but it illustrates a general principle).

I a bound to use Word 2003 (my employer's choice, alas...) for writing and
maintaining scientific documents using not a few bibliographic references,
whereas my main computing tools are unix-based. My bibliographic tool of choice
is Zotero.

Until now, I could fet away with Libreoffice and a few fixups. This is no
longer the case : some paranoïd manager gets fits of pique when he sees an edit
that has to be redone in Word and becomes (literally) unsufferable.

Since I can't afford to hang him, I tried to use the Windows version of Zotero
standalone along with Wine for my final edits.

A solution has been found incrementally (see
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12426/word-intergration-with-wine/#Item_0
from top to bottom) and needed a bit of patching of the solution offered by a
previous reader. Now, I still have to do some cosmetic edits with Wird, but at
least I can manage the references correctly.

Okay, this works, but needs a second Zotero installation, that needs to be
synchronized. Not fun (which means that in Real Life, "There Lie Tygers"....).

The Zotero plugin for Word uses, at least un this patched version, command-line
communication (yes, like unix plumbing !) between Word and Wndows-Zotero (it
does it via VBA, of all things...). I tried to patch it by replacing the path
to the Windows program by the path of the Linux program. No luck. Even a .exe
symlink to the Linux program or oiaohm's "native.exe" trick fails (probably
because, as noted by oiaohm in a previous post, the Linux Zotero's answer comes
too late to be used). So I think a better solution is needed.

My use case is probably a corner case, but I think there are lots of such
"niche" application where this case of mixed-platform programming could be
*extremely* useful. And this is something you can't do in a virtual machine
(save for opening and maintaining an ssh tunnel : not fun to do under
Windows...).

So I'd like to see serious consideration given to this issue and a *correct*
solution to this to be devised. Even if it can be felt this is a "new feature"
request, the possibilities are ... interesting.

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