On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:02 -0400, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > 1.0,23.15 did not get fully debugged and until there is funding for the > Crossover Office folks to continue their work, things are on hold. > > CPRS had to be modified to allow what was done to be done, and therefore both > a newer CPRS and one which is unmodified working with Wine is what we would > be shooting for, a bigger job than what was done in Boston. >
Again, not to be negative, but why? Crossover Office is a commercial product, and Wine itself is notoriously hard to install properly. Most distro packages of Wine are 1) old and 2) misconfigured (according to a couple of friends who work at Codeweavers). Specifically I have heard that the debian packages are very difficult and not easy to use. I think attempting to get CPRS to run under Wine and/or cxoffice (Yes, I know they are based on the same product, but cxoffice seems to get the COM fixes before Wine gets them, and that will be a huge stumbling block on CPRS running under a windows emulator on linux). Not to mention that Wine doesn't work outside of Linux + x86. You can't run it on Linux + PPC, and I believe it doesn't work at all well on other OSs like FreeBSD, etc. The amount of time/energy put into making CPRS run on linux through these methods seems like stop-energy to me. --Todd ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
