Hi David,
On 28.09.2007 17:28, David Outteridge wrote:
Thank you for the reply, Dan, a reply is appreciated.
I must write that I am surprised by this response - your website seems to be asking for help at all levels. I am not quite convinced that
Yes, any help is appreciated and you can help as well.
months of work is needed (mainly because corelDRAW version 11 works); but maybe you know something I do not - the main point of my posting,
Dan knows more, but AFAIK the X3 version uses some interfaces which are not implemented yet. That's the problem with quite a few new applications, but in due time they will be supported. Besides that, having past versions of an application working fine under Wine unfortunately has nothing to say about newer versions of that app. Sometimes, application internals change so much that it takes literally a year or more to support a newer version. Look at MS Office for example. One more thing: It may or may not be easier to get CorelDRAW 12 to install and run first, perhaps some of the issues you have to fix there also help for the X3 version.
of course. Largely, I was asking for policy information; i.e., *what* to do, not *how* to do it, which I feel I can handle.
Looking at your first mail, I see you indeed dived into the code and accomplished something. My suggestion would be to post a separate mail (if possible, with a proposed hack/patch) with a descriptive subject for every issue you run into. Such mails are generally replied to more often (because of the descriptive subject) than mails with the subject line of this thread. Another hint: You wrote that you used comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine for questions, however that newsgroup is AFAIK a one-way gateway from mail to news, i.e. 98% of the members of that mailing list did NOT see your message.
Good Luck with the project.
Thanks!
Regards, Carl-Daniel