On 3/28/07, Sasan Iman iman@simantis.com wrote:
I know that if you fiddle around with the stock release long enough you can get MS Office working on Wine as I have on a number of occasions, but shouldn't making this work for everyone be the highest priority for getting Wine to be adopted more widely?! Or is Wine more targeted to gamers which is mostly what I read about on WineHQ?
CodeWeavers isn't Evil. I think everyone involved in Wine would agree with that. There is absolutely no question that without their involvement several core pieces of Wine probably wouldn't exist. For example, MSI, COM, MSHTML, etc. We'd probably still have a good Direct3D implementation though because Stefan is sick like that.
As far as getting Office to work, you and everyone else are more than welcome to work on that. We even have a free graphical regression testing system (cxtest) that CodeWeavers developed that could help you maintain that. Personally, I'd be ecstatic if you'd be willing to work on that.
Finally, I wouldn't exactly say Wine is targeted at gamers any more than anything else.
-Brian