Awesome, I did some quickie work on Wine on the XO last year..<br> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wine">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wine</a><br><br>:) hoping that some day, someone would pickup the ball and run with it!<br>
<br>I'll definitely test out the new Activity and offer some feedback, the next chance I get!<br><br>-iXo<br>p.s. for extra excitement, install Google's Picasa for Linux (which includes Wine!).... slow... slow.. but it works ! :)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:02, Vincent Povirk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:madewokherd%2B8cd9@gmail.com">madewokherd+8cd9@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The Wine activity has advanced to the point where I think it's ready<br>
for testing by actual users.<br>
<br>
The current package, development history, and my todo list are at<br>
<a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine" target="_blank">http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine</a><br>
<br>
The intent of this project is to provide a shell that can be used to<br>
run Windows programs using Wine in the Sugar environment. It should be<br>
good enough that someone used to Windows can grab and install a<br>
Windows program without help, once the activity is installed. Ideally,<br>
the installer and software will both work fine in Wine and within the<br>
hardware limitations of an XO. In this ideal case, someone used to<br>
Windows should be able to operate it without help.<br>
<br>
If it does not live up to this ideal for platinum software (according<br>
to the Wine appdb) whose hardware requirements the XO meets, I want to<br>
know about it and hopefully fix it.<br>
<br>
Wine bugs and hardware limitations mean a lot of Windows programs<br>
won't work or won't work properly. On Linux, one can often push the<br>
compatibility much further than what works "out of the box" by looking<br>
at console messages (the log viewer works for this) and tweaking Wine.<br>
Don't expect everything to work perfectly, but don't give up if it<br>
doesn't. This is normal, even on Linux.<br>
<br>
Winehq.org has support channels for such cases (appdb, bugzilla,<br>
mailing lists, and the winehq irc channel). Most of the people there<br>
probably don't know anything about Sugared Wine, but collectively they<br>
should know more than I do about making Wine work in general. If a<br>
program doesn't work for you, you can go to any of those places for<br>
support. You can also email <a href="mailto:sugaredwine@codeweavers.com">sugaredwine@codeweavers.com</a>. That goes<br>
directly to me for now, but in the future (maybe the very near future)<br>
I may decide to send it somewhere public, like a mailing list,<br>
instead.<br>
<br>
Wine and the code that I developed for this project are licensed under<br>
the GNU LGPL. The entire package isn't quite LGPL because I included<br>
7-zip. 7-zip is LGPL + unRAR restriction (you're not allowed to use<br>
the source code to create a RAR compressor).<br>
<br>
If you have a program that works well in this Wine package and would<br>
like to package it as a stand-alone .xo, please let me know. I already<br>
did most of the work for this so that I could include 7-zip and a<br>
firefox downloader/installer (and I could probably have included<br>
firefox itself if not for the fact that it would require uploading<br>
non-open-source code to <a href="http://repo.or.cz" target="_blank">repo.or.cz</a>).<br>
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Vincent Povirk<br>
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