No WINE Before Its Time

Joe Barr writes "Stephen Feller has a story about WINE on NewsForge this morning ahead of next week's expected Beta release. The WINE project is 12 years old, so it's just about time." From the article: "'Wine has historically had a very frustrating history because it has been alpha software,' White said. 'This is really hard work. We're replicating the work of a billion-dollar company. The reason we're saying it's alpha is because we believe we still have fundamental changes to make on the way the internals work.' Noting that it has not always been easy to install software with Wine's alpha releases over the last decade, White said that once you got something working it has never meant it would continue to do so, or do so properly. There may have been display glitches or things not functioning properly, if a program even worked with Wine at all." OSTG is the parent company of both Slashdot and NewsForge.

Comments

Thanks WINE guys!

[psavo]

I've always wanted to say big thanks to all the people that are responsible for what WINE has become, but never really took the steps to do it.

So, BIG THANKS to all you people who are responsible for what WINE has become!

I don't use it overly much, but it's good to have for desperate situations.