[Wine] re: Newbie: Problem running FileMaker 8.5

[L. Rahyen]

On Saturday June 2 2007 18:55, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Any app that requires a crack to run
> should IMHO be rated "garbage" in the wine appdb.

	I agree with you that applications (especially games) that require cracks to 
run under Wine isn't nice situation but "garbage" rating for such apps and 
games is misleading for users who search AppDB. "Bronze" is more appropriate 
(excluding cases when crack is clearly illegal even when you have a licence 
but harmless nocd patches typically doesn't get into such category as long as 
they used just for personal experience).
	Of course when Wine will support most of copy protections we really can 
give "garbage" rating for applications/games if it isn't possible to run them 
out-of-the-box without cracks... But for now it will be confusing.
	That's just my personal opinion. You know much more about legal issues than I 
so maybe you are right and I'm not.

> But the advice to install from scratch is usually good.
> Wine is not so good at running apps already
> installed inside Windows.

	I don't think this is Wine problem. More likely it is the application 
problem - it probably need some registry keys or some files correctly 
registered somewhere. This is why sometimes after installation of a 
demo-version you can run full version in another location (but in most cases 
full-version in non-standard location doesn't run or "downgrades" to demo). 
Such applications will not run even under Windows if you just try to run them 
from another partition or network drive without installation. Anyway, there 
is no harm in installing a demo-version and trying it out to see if it works 
well under Wine and will work or not full-version of the software after that.