I'm frequently surprised that wine just works even with the most obscure and odd programs, e.g. exe packed Flash SWFs and programs with weird custom GUIs.
Wine 1.8 is released
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#12Nice! I'm excited to try out the 64bit support on OSX. Thank you to everyone that works on this!
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#13I'm frequently surprised that wine just works even with the most obscure and odd programs, e.g. exe packed Flash SWFs and programs with weird custom GUIs.
Flash Player redistributables aren't really obscure, they're all the same program, so I'd imagine WINE would support it well.
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#14I recently used Wine on Ubuntu and was amazed how smoothly it just worked. Download an msi Windows installer and open it just like you would in Windows. The program installs just like on Windows, and runs from its own icon just like in Windows. You hardly need to think about the fact that it's not Windows. Understandably there were a few compatibility problems but having it so well integrated into the UI was a surprise. It's perhaps almost good enough that you don't need to port your Windows application to Linux anymore. Just avoid the broken functionality. As a Windows programmer, I now keep Wine compatibility in mind when deciding to use new features and libraries and will be trying to remove incompatible code.
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#15Thanks a lot to the team for these improvements As a normal man, in addition to the technical changelog, what would be interesting for me to have is a list of software that can now be run by wine, or that have a significantly improved experience with this version compare to 1.7
Given the way Wine versioning works, I wouldn't expect any significant changes from the latest 1.7.x cycle. Wine uses the same versioning system that Linux used prior to (and perhaps after, I'm not sure) the 3.0 release. The second number represents a stable version if it's even or an unstable development version if it's odd. Odd releases are used to "build up" new features towards an even-numbered release.
That convention/development model was dropped with Linux 2.6. Current Linux is essentially still the 2.6 series. Linus just felt silly having the same major version number for ~8 years and has switched to incrementing it whenever the fancy strikes him.
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#16WINE is an amazing project. Big kudos to the team at CodeWeavers and all contributors.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a lot of software for Windows. The time it takes to test even a small set of software is likely significantly larger than producing a new release.
sure, I'm not saying the team should take the burden of doing the testing on a given set of windows software (even the 100 most popular one, whatever it means) What I wanted to express is that, as I guess the development is followed by a community of people to which it has been said that future version of wine will fix their current compatibility problem, they may have got some feedback of said people "hey cool now w…
At least in my experience, Wine compatibility is usually not binary. Programs don't go from "non-working" to "working" so much as they progress from "intolerable bugginess" to "tolerable bugginess" to "trivial bugginess", with the thresholds between those categories being highly subjective.
Re: Wine 1.8 is released
#18I recently used Wine on Ubuntu and was amazed how smoothly it just worked. Download an msi Windows installer and open it just like you would in Windows. The program installs just like on Windows, and runs from its own icon just like in Windows. You hardly need to think about the fact that it's not Windows. Understandably there were a few compatibility problems but having it so well integrated into the UI was a surpri…
Interesting. Is that just Wine itself, or does Ubuntu/GNOME/whoever have some special sauce that facilitates the seamless desktop integration?
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#19To those using it: did it happen to you at least once to find out that a specific application (or game) you really needed did not work with Wine? What was it?
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#20What part of Windows would need to be made open in order to get a 100% Windows binary compatibility on Linux?