Aye! I whole heartedly agree. It may not be a permanent solution but its great for now. Of course, wine ain't no emulator. regards, Adi Gadwale. On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Derek Fountain wrote:
If it requires Wine, then it isn't a native Linux prog, or even a "port". Wine seems to be the way some companies are going to try to "hedge their bets" when it comes to the Linux community. No good for me! Personally, I use Linux because of its' obvious stability and code maturity. Why would I want to "emulate" the very OS that I left in order to gain those benefits?
You're cutting your nose off to spite your face. If a program has been compiled with winelib, then it *is* a native Linux application. The code will be be ANSI C or C++, it will have been compiled on a Linux platform with gcc/g++, and it will have been linked with a GUI library which has been coded by UNIX experts to work with X on UNIX. The design of the GUI API comes from Redmond, but it's still a native Linux application.
Winelib is an excellent tool. It doesn't "emulate" anything - WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. Perhaps you should learn your facts before you criticise? I spent some time on the Corel stand at the recent LinuxExpo in London. Apart from an uncomfortable startup time, which they are working on, all their applications work really well. I saw the usual office suite and a beta of CorelDraw-9. These are seriously good programs. I tried hard to crash them but failed. Ventura Publisher will be ready in a few months and that will be pretty unique on Linux too. If we want to see Quicken, Dreamweaver, etc., winelib is the easy, and probably only, way to get them.
In general, there's not much wrong with many Windows applications. Some vendor's produce exceptionally high standards of code. The fact it runs on a flakey OS doesn't mean it's a bad application, and there's 0 bytes of that flakey OS code in winelib.
Just because you don't like an idea you clearly don't understand doesn't mean you should reject it. And if you do choose to reject it, think before prejudicing others with your uninformed opinions.
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