[Wine] winetools and ie6

[Dotan Cohen]

On 11/10/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> 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

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