On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:07:51PM +0000, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 9:42 pm, Arvid Johansson wrote:
It's not quite what I expected. Crossover works great. You even get access to their support and updates for a while. It's different with WineX though. I'm sure it works great (even though I haven't tried it too much), but you need to install a bunch of gnome-packages to get it to work. For some reason I really don't like that (I'm a bit allergic to gnome for some reason). Furthermore, you get no updates or support whatsoever from the transgaming/winex team. And aren't you supposed to get the source for WineX? You don't get it with the Wine Rack cd.
Hmm. I have used WineX in the past, for Warcraft III, and I don't remember having to add much to the base SuSE install. I think you can get the source on the website, but the binaries and support are subscription-based - it may be that some kind soul at SuSE has built their own binaries from the source, and that's why the support is not included. It can sometimes be a bit of a tussle to get individual games working, but once they are it's pretty impressive.
You are not supposed to get the WineX source. To parts of the source you get access via www.transgaming.com, check the CVS/developer links. The GNOME stuff is only for the Point2Play GUI interface, which is written in Python with GNOME bindings. Ciao, Marcus