WineConf 2005 Sets Deadline for Wine 0.9

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WineConf 2005 Sets Deadline for Wine 0.9

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 4, 2005 @05:51AM from the windows-users-decant-of-your-sins dept.

IamTheRealMike writes "As WineConf 2005 took place last weekend, the Wine developers discussed the project's direction and future. A new deadline of September 30th for the 0.9 release was set by Alexandre Julliard -- the release promises to bring an end to the system of monthly snapshots and provide a new focus on ease of use and stability. A new GPLd application regression testing tool called CXTest was demoed, as was some of the great Direct3D work being done lately. Finally the CEO of Gupta gave a talk. Gupta have ported their 4GL RAD tools to Linux by working with Codeweavers (who sponsored the event), and their experiences were documented in a fascinating presentation. Overall: big thumbs up, but it's not obvious enough that there's enterprise-level support available for Wine. Check out the group photo and the new Wiki!"

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Thanks to CodeWeavers by XanC · 2005-05-04 05:54 · Score: 5, Informative

We use their fine product to allow library patrons to run MS Office on some of our public workstations. It's great to know how much they contribute back to Wine and the community.
Kudos to them!
Re:I could be out of line... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-04 05:59 · Score: 3, Informative

Motivation?
Re:Wine, the perfect "not an" emulator by Tharkban · 2005-05-04 06:07 · Score: 3, Informative

From Wine's web site: Myths

As Wine's name says: "Wine Is Not an Emulator":

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Re:Wine 1.0 by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-04 07:16 · Score: 3, Informative

Is the performance target for Wine 1.0 that any (and I mean *any*) Win32 program will run on Linux?

That will never happen. Even Microsoft can't get *all* Win32 programs to work on newer versions of Windows. Some of them depend on low-level hardware access, specific Win9x kernel data structures, etc.

The best I'd hope for is that any *sane* Win32 program will run on Wine. Meaning any program that sticks to the Win32 API (and maybe even programs using undocumented functions, but not the ones using crazy hacks).
Re:Are WineHQ and CoderWavers enermies? by PitaBred · 2005-05-04 08:00 · Score: 3, Informative

Not CodeWeavers. They're good people, they do Crossover office and such. Mostly at Transgaming, who do the Cedega stuff (no longer WineX)

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