Re: Wine

[Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl>]

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Guillermo Garron wrote:
> On 3/15/07, José Sánchez <josefer3000@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi, i've been reading about wine (cedega and cxOffice also)
>> the question is, which of those packages is better, and why (im
>> interested
>> basicly in some windows games)
>>
>> also, id like to know the difference between wine from debian and wine
>> from
>> wineHQ ....
> Hi win from wine HQ should be the latest available release for Debian,
> but I think not tested by Debian :).
> 
> I have never tried the cedega and cxOffice, but if you are interested
> in wine, I have this small guide to install it.
> 
> http://linux.go2linux.org/node/38
> 
> regards,

No,  that's my point.  WineHQ doesn't have Debian packages, they have
Ubuntu Packages.  They are not the same.

Debian does have wine packages, but they are usually a couple of
versions behind the mainstream (and for good reason as Debian strives
for stability).

The point is, if you want the bleeding-edge packages from wine HQ on
your pristine Debian system, you have to compile it yourself.  If you're
insterested in doing that, then perhaps it is a good idea to create
packages and upload them to winehq, so all of the other Debian Users who
want to run the same bleeding edge software will be able to use your
packages.

You would become a maintainer, and would have to interact with the Wine
developers.

I do not volunteer for the job.  I don't know who would.

Joe
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