Talk:Wine (software)

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Expand on the legality of Wine, reverse engineering Write more regarding functionality and speed Explain the relationship between Codeweavers and the project more visibly Give some history

Archives /Archive 1: Jan 2004 - Sep 2006

[edit] On Portal:Free software, Wine is currently the selected article

(2006-10-01) Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was ReactOS. Gronky 22:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

The selected article has rotated again and is now openMosix. Gronky 17:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification

Another small comment: ((I noticed someone here was speaking of running Wine on Linux, so I thought of this:)) This article starts out by saying that << "The Wine project aims to allow a PC running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to execute programs originally written for Microsoft Windows." >> IMHO, instead of saying "a Unix-like operating system" it should say something like "a POSIX compatible operating system such as Gnu/Linux". I say this partly because, at http://winehq.org/site/about it says (that Wine is capable of running Windows applications on) [quote:] "Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems". Just my 0.02, from Mike Schwartz 17:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

That doesn't do anything except make the section harder to read. Nitpicking for nitpicking's sake is endemic to free software articles, but that doesn't mean it should be encouraged. Chris Cunningham 17:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with winecfg

There is not very much in the winecfg article but the screen shot and the small bit of text could become a sub section in the wine article. So Yes the article could be merged. --Benjaminevans82 16:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Just go ahead and merge it. I don't think anyone would mind. Memmke 10:11, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merging of WineTools, Wine-Doors, and WineXS into Wine (software)

Stub articles (on directly related tools) with little potential of expansion. What do you think? Memmke 09:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Disagree: The pieces of software work with Wine but they are separate pieces of software so they should have separate articles. --Benjaminevans82 14:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Agree: Yes, but their directly related to Wine and their notability is, IMO, not high enough for them to stand on their own. Memmke 15:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

What is IMO? --Benjaminevans82 21:50, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

It's an acronym for "in my opinion". Memmke 08:25, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Disagree: They are separate subjects and should therefore have separate articles. While I believe these pieces of software should be mentioned in the Wine article, perhaps in a broad 'frontend' section, it makes more sense to have separate articles in any case. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 21:28, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Agree: The three related articles are in themselves too small to own article space. If they were larger, then perhaps they should stand as they are. Or maybe one article related to Wine-apps? But until this happens, they should be merged here. Why is this even being debated? It should just be 'done'. --Joe Christl 18:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Agree --nkayesmith 00:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Agree Fowl2 14:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Agree - if the subject gets big enough to be articles in their own right then they can be split up alla the usual way with a brief and a link being left in their place.... Shrewd.user 05:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Agree Chris Pickett 04:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Done. Chris Cunningham 19:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] what can wine do?

i dont understand if wine can run games, music or video editing applications such as warcraft, pro tools, acid pro, sony vegas et cetera...can someone explain, in detail, which windows apps run good and which dont? --AlexOvShaolin 04:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I've found that Starcraft and all half-life mods run exceptionally well with Wine. You can use Internet Explorer with it, but its hard to install. Wine's goal is to run MS Windows binary files, for a list of apps that are known to work, and how to get around issues, check appdb.winehq.org —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dustin gayler (talk • contribs) 15:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC).

thanx for the link, but i really dont see why anyone using linux would want to use i.e., strange world isnt it? --AlexOvShaolin 00:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

There are two real reasons I can think of. Web development (testing compatibility issues) and if you wanted to view sites that use Shockwave. Dustin 14:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

My wife and I run World of Warcraft pretty much perfectly on Wine. As a result, there's nothing keeping us on Windows and we've moved wholesale to running Linux. Dustin's link to the wine AppDB will help you out lots. -Tjkiesel 19:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wine a acronym?

Hi. I noticed Wine was listed under four letter acronyms but is it really a acronym? I thought it was just the full name of the software? Ad0500 11:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Chris Cunningham 12:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes what? The article states that it is indeed an acronym, for "Wine Is Not an Emulator". -- Smjg 17:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes it is a recursive acronym for the phrase "Wine is Not an Emulator". -Tjkiesel 02:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Funny thing about that is that in Fedora Core when you right click on a windows aplictaion, it gives you the following opening options:

• open with wine (windows emulator)

Clearly going against "Wine Is Not an Emulator". --Lwarf 09:55, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

In ubuntu i does that too, it calls it an emulator, but what's funny is that it doesnt start, you need to start it from the terminal... RealG187 16:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

See GNU or LAME amongst others. The "not" is generally pithy or outdated in these acronyms. Chris Cunningham 11:45, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DirectX

What about Direct X compatibility. How campatible is WINE with DirectX? Kc4 20:43, 16 January 2007 (UTC)