[Wine] Windows Help files

[Dan Kegel]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> wrote:
>  > >  Winelib is not stable enough to be suitable for any real ports.
>  > >  If you look at such attempts in the past they all ended up in disaster
>  > > for both users, who couldn't use newer Wine versions and vendors
>  > >  who ended up trying to support multiple incompatible Wine versions.
>  >
>  > See the Bricscad case study at http://kegel.com/wine/isv/#case-studies
>  > for details.
>
>  thanks for the infos, til now i thought one could easily port his win32
> apps to unix via wineleb as long as you dont use any fancy stuff and
> stick to standard functions.

That's true - you can - but it's better to simply use Wine.  Winelib has
surprising properties that will confuse both you and your users unless
you really know what you're doing.  Using Wine has significantly fewer
surprises.
And as a bonus you don't have to recompile your app.

>  is it likely this situation will change anytime soon ?

When the wine protocol is complete, perhaps.  That's a long ways off.
- Dan