On Friday 06 June 2008 16:07:05 Dan Kegel wrote:
You'd be surprised. I've visited the Limux guys in Munich, and although they did test and use Wine, they had very little time to devote to it. I helped them file Wine bugs, don't know if they would have without help. I don't know much about the Vienna effort. I did make contact with them in 2006, but they didn't seem that interested in Wine at the time. I emailed them again today, perhaps they're more interested now.
So the issue is that Wine is still not regarded as a serious project. I know Munich contracted a company to fix their Samba issues. Why not do the same for Wine? I know there's German-language companies doing this, and Codeweavers has an Austrian native speaker.
Vienna, like Munich, isn't monolithic. There are people and parties who support the migration in both cases, and those who oppose it. It's a continual tug-of-war.
Yes, my point is that "Our Kindergarden app doesn't work with Wine, let's roll out Vista instead" sounds very suspicious to me. This is a politics issue, not a technical issue.
Cheers, Kai