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<title>Wine Traffic</title>

<author contact="http://www.theshell.com/~vinn">Brian Vincent</author>
<issue num="197" date="11/21/2003" />
<intro> This is the 197th issue of the Wine Weekly News publication.
Its main goal is to ski more. It also serves to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at <a href="http://www.winehq.com">www.winehq.com</a> </intro>
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<section 
	title="News: Wine-20031118, WineX 3.2, TG Updates" 
	subject="News"
	archive="http://www.transgaming.org" 
	posts="3"
	startdate="11/15/2003"
	enddate="11/21/2003"
>
<topic>News</topic>
<p>Wine-20031118 spawned from CVS.  Alexandre noted the following
changes:</p>
<quote who="Alexandre Julliard"><p>
WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20031118: (see 
 <a href="http://cvs.winehq.com/cvsweb/wine/ChangeLog?rev=1.77&amp;content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">ChangeLog</a>
 for details)
<ul>
        <li> Many printing improvements.</li>
        <li> Run-time detection of NPTL threading.</li>
        <li> Lots of code merges from Crossover Office 2.1.</li>
        <li> Some reorganization of the source tree.</li>
         <li> Lots of bug fixes.</li></ul></p></quote>

It seems like a lot of the patches from CodeWeavers appeared on 
wine-patches this time. In the past it seemed like a lot of them
were culled from the CodeWeavers codebase and committed by Alexandre.
Over the past month there's been patches from the CodeWeaver's staff
submitted to wine-patches first. Enough rambling.. 
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241">go 
download.</a>
TransGaming unleashed WineX 3.2 this week. From the press release:
<quote who="Transgaming">
TransGaming Technologies. release of its flagship Linux technology, WineX 3.2, 
brings the hottest Windows titles to devoted Linux gamers and includes 
support for blockbuster hits like Max Payne [R] 2: The Fall of Max Payne, 
Warcraft [R] III: The Frozen Throne [TM] and Homeworld 2, to name a few.

"TransGaming's unique ability to enable Max Payne 2 to run on Linux without any access to the source code is quite impressive," comments Markus Maki, Development Director of Remedy Entertainment. "We're extremely pleased that TransGaming is broadening our reach to new audiences and that the Linux community continues to enjoy our products thanks to TransGaming's outstanding work." </quote>

TransGaming put up their November 
<a href="http://www.transgaming.com/showthread.php?news=92">Development 
Status and Voting</a> Report. Not too much news on that front. More
significant, they announced the creation of 
<a href="http://www.transgaming.org">transgaming.org</a>. WineX mailing
lists and the CVS repository have been moved over to the new site.

LinuxQuestion.org is conducting 
<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?forumid=37">several polls</a> including
<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=116387">Best Windows on Linux App of the Year</a>. Wine is
currently leading the pack with WineX and CrossOver Office in the running.

</section>
<section 
	title="LGPL'ed Bits of WineX" 
	subject="WineX relation to Wine"
	archive="http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/11/0412.html" 
	posts="12"
	startdate="11/19/2003"
	enddate="11/20/2003"
>
<topic>Transgaming</topic>
<topic>Licensing</topic>
<p>For those of you new to this little soap opera we call Wine, Gerhard
Gruber asked some questions you may have wondered:</p>
<quote who="Gerhard Gruber"><p>
I was wondering what is the relation of Wine to WineX? There is a CVS access
to WineX, at least part of it, which is covered under the GPL. What I was
wondering about is, wether this code is the same as wine or is it more
advanced? Or is this code only the sutff which is also contained in Wine and
all the other stuff is (more or less) closed, so that you can not use it for
Wine.</p>
</quote>

<p>Lionel Ulmer replied first:</p>
<quote who="Lionel Ulmer"><p>