Already Error while installing MS Office 2003

jimtabor jimtabor at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Sep 16 01:55:44 CDT 2006


Hi!

> Hello
>
> >Codeweavers version of Wine has changes that Alexandre deems
> >unacceptable for the "clean" WineHQ tree.
>
> If this is that way, it would be real a horror. Why are code patches 
> which allows a huge major app (key application) to run on linux 
> "unacceptable" (From point of view of the MS users). Do we here make 
> trench warfares?  Or are there quality conceivabilities which are 
> completely unrealistic? Shouldn't we not see the major goal of wine? 
> To run windows apps on linux? Not to have a few lines code a bit 
> better quality etc. I think we don't have the choice to reject code. 
> Be very very thankful for each line which is checked in!! I think some 
> responsible persons are to deep in the code.  They are looking just 
> into the code but can't see the benefit of the code for the wine 
> project itself. Why don't just accept the code? There is enough time 
> later to make it more "beautiful" or correct it to a better quality. 
> But for the moment, some of the code directly allows important apps to 
> work.
>
> Roland
>
>
>
I checked the Codeweavers version of Wine, there are a lot of 
"Codeweaver "HACK HACK HACK" Alerts"
everywhere in key dlls. I compared it with 0.9.16 since the Codeweavers 
wine VERSION stated it.

Amazing!
James


> >----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----
> >Von: Jim White <jim at pagesmiths.com>
> >An: Roland Kaeser <roli8200 at yahoo.de>
> >CC: wine-devel at winehq.com
> >Gesendet: Freitag, den 15. September 2006, 19:41:45 Uhr
> >Betreff: Re: Already Error while installing MS Office 2003
> >
> >Roland Kaeser wrote:
> >
> >> Just tried to test install office 2003 on wine 0.9.21. But getting
> >> already errors. I read in C't (german it magazine) that office 2003
> >> works on codeweavers. Can somebody declare me this? Does codeweavers
> >> voluntary not provide the corrections to wine to sell their product?
> >> Looks very strange to me.
> >> ...
> >
> >Codeweavers version of Wine has changes that Alexandre deems
> >unacceptable for the "clean" WineHQ tree.
> >
> >The Codeweavers Wine source is here:
> >
> >http://www.codeweavers.com/products/source/
> >
> >Jim
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>



More information about the wine-devel mailing list