[Wine] Make sure that Visual Studio works before 1.2 release

[James McKenzie]

Jesse Palser wrote:
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> On 07/07/2010 02:47 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
>> fernandocarvalho<wineforum-user at winehq.org>  wrote:
>>> Then, for the next release of wine, we could make sure that every 
>>> new wine release, is
>>> capable of running Visual Studio.
>> Give us a real good compelling reason why this should be so.  We are 
>> busy enough with trying to make 3,000 games and office applictions 
>> run (or more.)  There are things in VS that will never work with Wine 
>> and that's just fine.  We are trying to get MingWin to work and 
>> Cygwin to work as well.  This will allow for building of Windows 
>> executibles from Linux/UNIX and to run them in Windows.  That would 
>> be considered a massive step forward.
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>>> So we can maintain a certain compliance with key features of windows.
>> That's why we concentrate on applications over a broad spectrum.
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>>> If Visual Studio starts working in a good shape, we can be sure that 
>>> many applications
>>> will also work, because a great portion of them are build using 
>>> Visual Studio.
>> It won't and never will.  Applications use .NET and other 'features' 
>> of Windows as well.  The goal should be:
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>> 1.  Get legacy applications to work in Wine as they do in Windows.
>> 2.  Get current applications to work in Wine as they do in Windows.
>> 3.  Get cygwin/mingwin to build Windows applications in UNIX/Linux.
>> 4.  Get Visual Studio to work in Wine.
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>> The first is mainly done.  The second is where a lot of the messages 
>> in this forum come from.  The third is a purely developer issue.  The 
>> fourth may or may not happen as time goes along.  Remember, we are 
>> following the Microsoft path and they have been known to throw a 
>> wrench into the works on a regular basis.  And yes, I've been at this 
>> since the introduction of Windows95 to get Win32s applications to run 
>> on OS/2 (Project Odinn...)
>>
>> James McKenzie
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>   Hi,
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> I you want Visual Studio to work, don't look towards Wine to do it.
> Grab a free copy of VirtualBox and install a Windows to it.
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> Just my two cents.
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> Jesse
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That's because you are running Windows, not an API.  We are working on 
getting VS to work, but that takes time.  Right now VS2005Trial does 
work with Wine, but in a limited fashion.

James McKenzie

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