Thread: Wine 1.0

Arby,
quick google turned this up
http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008...unning-in.html

Hey I have a WINE question and I'm too lazy to look it up:

Most windows software, as is distributed, comes with an installer and all that stuff. How does WINE handle that? Do you run setup.exe with wine, and it does the right things (installs it in some directory, etc.)? How does it handle things like registry keys? It's one thing to translate API calls, but some things go beyond just the API (though I guess registry access is really part of the API, so wine can maintain a registry of its own... or something)

That's pretty sweet. I'll have to put it on my Ubuntu box.

Hopefully it'll be out and well tested when it's time for a new computer. This PPC one is getting kind of old.

Yeah, it runs the setup.exe and installs into a directory.

Originally Posted by Ynot

Arby,
quick google turned this up
http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008...unning-in.html

Most of the windows are half-missing =P

I might take it on a virtual machine, the extra overhead (is is normally very big?) probably wouldn't be too much of a problem.

Otherwise, i'll wait for bronze or silver on CS3 =P

Somehow I get the feeling that Wine 1.0 isn't gonna happen for quite some time. That will be great when it does, though.

Slightly off topic, but am I the only one who runs Wine under Mac OS X? I know ninja9578 doesn't have access to an x86 Mac, but I can't be the only one in the known universe. There are more users of Mac OS X than of F/OSS OSes (not counting servers), yet you never hear about Mac users compiling Wine. It's a lot more convenient than dual-booting or using virtual machines.

Well, almost all big Windows programs have ports to the Mac (a lot of the bigs ones went the other way) so they run natively on the Mac. There are far less ports to Linux.

All of my friends parallel boot if they need a Windows program. I was going to do that with my next computer, until I found out that Wind ran on OSX

Wine 1.0-rc1 released
http://winehq.org/?announce=1.0-rc1

looking like it's on schedule

Looking forward to seeing it in the repos. I assume Hardy will pick it up automatically, and it won't be considered a completely separate version to manually install...

WoW is now rated platinum, hopefully anti-aliasing will work.