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Wine 0.9.44 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the in-old-bottles dept.

jshriverWVU writes to let us know about the release of Wine 0.9.44. Wine is a free implementation of Windows on Unix/Linux. New in this release are: better heuristics for making windows managed; automatic detection of timezone parameters; improvements to the built-in WordPad; better signatures support in crypt32; still more gdiplus functions; and of course lots of bug fixes.

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  1. Wine 1.0? by lobiusmoop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What ever happened to the impending release of Wine 1.0? I seem to remember it was coming very soon 6 months ago. It would be a great publicity boost for the software if it reached that point.

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  2. How is this /.-worthy news? by ketilwaa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wine releases every 14 days, see http://winehq.org/ Are we now going to see these kinds of news on /. every time there's a trivial update? I can think of a couple of apps and releases that are a little more important...

    1. Re:How is this /.-worthy news? by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Badly written doesn't even begin to describe InstallShield. Where would I begin? Its 3 step install process that exists not because it makes sense, but because of InstallShield tortured history of an app? The amazing overhead it imposes on any app that uses it? Its custom programming language? Its heavy abuse of DCOM? The typos in its internal class names? The way it does an inter-thread RPC for every file copied (to update the label in the gui), meaning that if you want to install lots of small files most of the installers cpu time will be spent on RPC? As an ex-Wine developer, I spent many hours wrestling with this app. You haven't experienced true despair until you have encountered the hopeless, labrythine and worthless complexity of the InstallShield internals.

  3. Wine breaks backward compatibility a lot. by baadger · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been thinking of starting to ./configure --prefix a Wine install into a subdirectory of my home directory and applying a script wrapper to the wine binary.

    Pretty much every application or game I use under Wine requires either a patch against wine or some app specific hack to get it working properly, and often they don't work in the next Wine version.

    Wine is great but setting up multiple apps or games to work under it is horrible.

    1. Re:Wine breaks backward compatibility a lot. by paskie · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Actually, this was my experience in the past as well, but during the 0.9 series this got a lot better for me and now for a long time already I didn't need to change any actual wine settings for specific application at all (and I'm messing with relatively wide variety of applications and games. At most I have to tweak (e.g. graphics) settings of the application itself. New versions don't break apps that previously were working that much either (though it happens sometimes; I still have bisecting what broke SC3000 in my long TODO list ;).

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    2. Re:Wine breaks backward compatibility a lot. by Shulai · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I think they should try to raise their profile between Windows developers, in order to encourage them to do some testing on Wine. I guess they already does testing on half a dozen Windows environments, they'll add Wine to the list if they think it's a viable platform and a part of their potential market.

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  4. Any chance of a merge? by UED++ · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I know this is highly unlikely Is it possible in the future that the wine and Cedega projects merge to create a truly powerful tool for running windows games and applications on Linux? Something like point2run for everything. Or maybe someone can fork a new project based on CVS cedega with some added wine? Sorry if my questions sound noobish...