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Wine Works Towards 1.0

Posted by Hemos on from the over-the-river-and-thru-the-woods dept.

Sukru Tikves writes "Today on Wine Weekly News' future issue I read from that ' The Wine team is preparing to begin on the road towards the long-awaited Wine 1.0 release, but there's still some way to go, and many usability issues to clean up before even a public beta release is possible. While the wizards churn out the machine-readable source code, the Wine Weekly News plan to help by providing human-readable language mere users can read. ' "

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  1. The Real World needs Wine by robinjo · · Score: 5

    Many people underestimate badly the need to run Windows apps. We're not only talking about office software here. We're talking about thousands of small utilities or custom made programs that are written for Windows to do some small task. At our company there's already several of them.

    What Wine lets us do is to run those small programs and concentrate on writing the newest ones for Linux. But we won't port the old ones because it would take a lot of time which we don't have.

    So before you put Wine down, remember that changing OS at work places is a huge task. Changing all those small programs on top of that is just a gigantic task and won't happen unless there's a big reason. And the difference between Linux and NT is not big enough.

  2. Beginnings... by Ravagin · · Score: 5

    The Wine team is preparing to begin on the road towards the long-awaited Wine 1.0 release

    (my bold)

    So we're still at the preliminary commencement portion of the preporatory stage, eh?
    Hee hee. Sorry.
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    -J

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    Karma: T-rexcellent.