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Re: Wine 2.0 released

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coldpie wrote: post #166
projektfu wrote: post #156

A few years ago I was working on ReactOS and I found a bug in the list view control. After working hard on a patch, I submitted it and heard nothing about it. Have community relations improved since then?

I'm sorry to hear that. In order to avoid regressions, we have pretty rigorous requirements for patch submissions. Unfortunately this can result in dropped patches, especially in subsystems that no one in particular feels responsible for. We are trying to improve this, and we now ship a MAINTAINERS file that will hopefully help with this, and are also actively spreading patch review responsibilities around. I don't t…

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Re: Wine 2.0 released

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coldpie wrote: post #166
projektfu wrote: post #156

A few years ago I was working on ReactOS and I found a bug in the list view control. After working hard on a patch, I submitted it and heard nothing about it. Have community relations improved since then?

I'm sorry to hear that. In order to avoid regressions, we have pretty rigorous requirements for patch submissions. Unfortunately this can result in dropped patches, especially in subsystems that no one in particular feels responsible for. We are trying to improve this, and we now ship a MAINTAINERS file that will hopefully help with this, and are also actively spreading patch review responsibilities around. I don't t…

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Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by pzone »

bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

Lots of professional software outside of software development is Windows-only. For a 3d hobbyist, lack of Photoshop and ZBrush makes Linux very hard to switch to.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by dijit »

bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

Where I work, the developers are /very/ Windows-centric, to the point where they can't port their C++ code.

So I use wine64 to run their command-line tools on FreeBSD, it works like a charm. :D

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by teach »

bigbugbag wrote: post #114
teach wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VMWare is an emulator. Wine is not an emulator.

Isn't vmware virtualization ? despite it's tongue in cheek retro-acronymic name, wine is indeed an emulator. https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Is_Wine_an_emulator.3F_There_see... Also before it changed its name for the current retro acronym WINE used to mean WINdows Emulator: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows-emulation/wine-faq/

You're right that VMWare is more properly virtualization.

However, Wine is not an emulator in any way like the way that word is used in technology.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by hookshot »

Kratisto wrote: post #120
LeoPanthera wrote: post #96

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Ah. Unfortunately I have a subscription plan and 1Password 4 won't connect to it.

Yeah I use 1password as well. I wish there was a linux client.

I just started using enpass today. They have a native Linux app, it works almost identically to 1password, and you can import your 1password vault.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by flukus »

brotherjerky wrote: post #43
ronjouch wrote: post #29

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Tag&Rename [1], a still maintained Windows-only shareware excellent at tagging music. Occasional use, Linux equivalents suck in various ways, it's perfectly configured to my needs, and works perfectly in Wine so why change it :) [1] http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm EDIT: thanks for the Linux alternative suggestions everyone! I have (had) mostly the same complaints about ExFalso / Puddletag / EasyTAG as the ones I po…

Let the computer do the work, I recommend beets which pulls Musicbrainz data: http://beets.io/

>Let the computer do the work

I've had mixed success with this before when it comes to organizing media. Is there any app which takes the middle ground of doing the work but letting the user confirm?

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by wtallis »

asperous wrote: post #179
tzs wrote: post #112

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> Wine is a great project, and truly 'is not an emulator'. The Wine is not an emulator thing has an interesting history. It originally was officially called an emulator. The change was largely due to essentially marketing. The first suggestion for the "Wine Is Not an Emulator" language was made in 1993, over concern that "Windows Emulator" might run into trademark problems with Microsoft. That suggestion was by Bob A…

The "not an emulator" thing I think is good marketing but yeah kinda confusing since it is essentially High-level emulation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_emulation Interestingly that's how video game system console emulators after N64 got to be so fast, my understanding is the core concept is they just convert the machine instructions to x64 and do special linking to link the graphic calls to hardware-acc…

Wine is at least distinct from emulators for recent consoles in that Wine is purely HLE techniques, without a low-level emulation component (although there was some work to integrate Wine and QEMU during the Mac Power PC days). Wine works on the level of the dynamic loader to handle a foreign object file format and intercept library calls, but all the machine code executes natively.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by bblough »

stuaxo wrote: post #36
rijoja wrote: post #26

This brings me back to the early days of my Linux usage. I've always been fascinated by this project. My very nerdy dream has always been to try to contribute to it somehow. How hard is it to get in to the community?

Another non development way to contribute is on the appdb, testing compatibility - https://appdb.winehq.org/

Unless you run Debian stable (or probably any LTS distro), in which case they don't want your reports because "your software is too out of date".

I find this attitude odd, because there are (at least) tens of thousands of wine installs under Debian alone. Surely the information is relevant and useful to people, even if the version is no longer officially supported.

As a result, I've stopped wasting my time filing reports only to have them rejected.

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