winehq's wine vs Corel wine

Ove Kaaven ovehk at ping.uio.no
Tue Oct 2 15:19:49 CDT 2001


On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Raul Dias wrote:

> Some times I read people claimming that
> some applications run well (or installs well) 
> with Corel's wine but not with winehq's wine.
> 
> As Corel is dead for almost a year (IIRC), is there 
> something in Corel's wine that it is not on the official wine?

Probably.

> If it is, what is it? 

I don't think anyone knows.

> why isn't it in winehq's wine? license? design?

Mostly "design". Corel Wine was forked from Wine long ago, and the trees
have since then diverged too far apart to be able to merge. This topic has
been discussed before, so it ought to be in the mailing list archives.





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