Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
Tuesday, June 20, 2006, 11:27:04 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Wine Bugs wrote:
vitaliy@kievinfo.com changed:
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Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED------- Additional Comments From vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2006-19-06 14:11 ------- Again this is not a bug. There is nothing to fix because there is nothing that broke.
I disagree. If IE doesn't run, it's a bug. I would actually say that it's a major bug - IE is one the those core applications that users expects to work.
What would you say if I open a bug about "Windows doesn't work on Wine"? Or better yet, "Can not upgrade Wine to winxp".
You are incorrect about "there is nothing to fix": Perhaps the source code is fine, but the documentation is certainly not. http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=469 even says: "(to be continued because then it still doesn't run because of ole errors)"
This is _not_ a documentation. If you are not happy with something on appDB ask app maintainers to change that. Of course suggestions are welcome to what do you want to see there.
Anyone is welcome to write up instructions on what to override and place them in appDB. Bugzilla is not the right place for that.
Why do you think Bugzilla cannot be used for tracking documentation bugs? There is a "wine-documentation" component and a "WineHQ Apps Database" component, if you think that wine-misc is totally wrong.
Because that's exactly what appDB is for.
I would very much prefer is this bug could be left open until someone has managed to figure out what needs to be overridden to actually *run* IE.
I explained in the bug and will repeat here. Wine does not run windows. Wine runs windows applications. That's the main goal. The ultimate goal is to run every windows application without using any native component. That way Wine will be 100% replacement to windows. If you install any part of windows (per m$) you have to have windows licence.
I'm not saying that some one can not find a way to run ie on Wine. In fact I spent quite some time putting that "magic" list of overrides together. Now it's been removed because Wine has it's own replacement for ie whenever app needs that.
If you are saying that Wine shouldn't actively try to support IE like other Apps, I very much regret this. As a part time web developer I have learned to hate IE very much, each and every bit of web code written has to be tested with it and I always had to go and find a Windows machine to do this. Supporting IE in Wine would help a lot of web developers to migrate completely to Linux.
Nearly every Laptop-user has a (maybe unwanted) license for some windows version, so these people (including me) are allowed to run IE on any OS they want.
And I think it good for Wine to have its own IE replacement too.
Just my 2 €cents.
Vitaliy.
Ulrich