[Wine] Re: autocad 2008 and wine

[miciomax]

epsilon_da wrote:
> ruelle: Maybe never. It is a hack.
> 

Not exactly.... both patches needed are quite correct, so it is possible that they'll be shortly in wine.


> 
> Can somebody with a sane English write an online petition for autocad in:
> 
> http://www.petitiononline.com/create_petition.html
> 
> Or maybe create a webpage like with nvidia opendriver request:
> 
> http://www.opentheblob.com/nvidia/
> 
> That would be a start for someday having a real AutoCAD version in linux.
> 

There was a version in linux, MANY years ago, and they stopped it.... I'd wonder it they'd resurrect it.....


> 
> ...................
> - Use OpenGL instead of DX.
> 


Again, they HAD Opengl and they dropped it in favour of Directx.... because M$ dropped OpenGL support in Vista (IIRC).
So, first stuff would be to ask M$ to resupport opengl.... which would be like asking a politician to give you money for free....

Max