Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > I find it extremely hard to believe that CrossOver Office does > anything easier than winetools.
It's a difficult statement. When winetools works, it works great. If you got winetools to install IE for you, don't expect CXOffice to be any better. The problem is that it doesn't always work. It tends to recommend certain versions of Wine, and those are not always easy to get (unless you're prepared to pull them from CVS). On the other hand, CXOffice is compiled without BiDi support. This is due, in large part, to the fact that crucial cleanup work on the Wine Bidi was not done, which resulted in Bidi carrying dependencies that Codeweavers simply would not pay for their product. Many distribution wine packages do carry Bidi enabled wine, and if you compile your own you can, naturally, also make sure Bidi is compiled. In any case, this doesn't matter as much for Hebrew in IE, as IE does most of it's own Bidi anyways. As for payment for CXOffice: First, a bit of full disclosure. Lingnu, my company, is the Israeli distributer of the software. I don't think it changes the validity of what I say much, because, unless you're getting your VAT back, it will be cheaper to buy CXOffice from the codeweavers web site (and, yes, we do give a 10% discount to "hamakor" members). As for the actual facts. While CXOffice does contain fixes not available inside Wine itself (typically because they are ugly hacks and Alexandre won't have them in the Wine tree), it is my experience that this is not the reason that CXOffice works where Wine sometimes fails. This has more to do with picking the right version. What I suggest is this. Allocate the amount of money you want to spend on this issue. Try winetools first. If it works for you, do donate the equivalent amount by going to http://winehq.org and clicking the "donate" button. If winetools doesn't do the job for you, either buy CXOffice (from Lingnu or directly from the codeweavers site), or hack it until it does. I hope I've helped. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
