[Wine] "viewed as not acceptable by the community"

[Austin English]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:44 PM, antoniong <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> austin987 wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM, antoniong <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Fine if that is you're opinion but you have given perfect arguments against the philosophy of Open souces.
>> >
>>
>> How so?
>>
>>
>> > Last but not least: I came here with a perfectly normal and simple question (how to detect whether Wine is running) and all I met were people telling me to find the error (without even thinking that such might be near to impossible) and not even a single bit of help!
>> >
>>
>> I gave you a few different ways to do it, which you apparently
>> ignored. As I said, it's a really bad idea to do, but if you want to,
>> the best way would be to detect the broken behavior (since many
>> windows machines may do the same thing). Another good way is to do as
>> Utorrent does, and make the hack optional in the settings, so that if
>> Wine is fixed, the hack can be disabled.
>>
>> On a side note, you go between implying that you wrote this code and
>> want to fix it for Wine and acting as if normal users can detect that
>> Wine is running. How will a user allowing a program to detect Wine
>> help, unless the program already had some hacks? Like I said, it's
>> programmers that are concerned about this, not end users.
>>
>> --
>> -Austin
>
>
> I nowhere wrote or even suggested that I was the one writing the code! I am the one testing a Windows app that is supposed to run under Linux using Wine.

You never made it clear, hence my confusion. What app is this?

> I have no access (and do not want to) to the winsource code neither do I want any access to the Wine sourcecode.

Fair enough.

> To me Wine is a utility that makes it possible to run Win apps under Linux! Nothing more, nothing less.

Agreed. Though I'd add a free reimplementation of the Win32 API, and
also running on BSD/Solaris/OS X.

> However, there seems to be a problem and with my over 40 years of programming experience I seek a solution by which the developer of the app can easily adapt his programm to the yes/no Wine.

Sure, they can.

> Possible consequences in the futute are his not yours and are his to decide only.

Of course, but nor is it yours. It's not encouraged, as it may break,
as we've said. How is this discussion going to help you, you can't fix
his app for him...

-- 
-Austin