David Gerard wrote:
2009/5/18 Brian Vincent <brian.vinc...@gmail.com>:
Which leads me to my $.02: I wonder if there's a sweet spot for Wine
adoption somewhere in the middle-tier of the software application popularity
contest. For instance, rather than going after Photoshop or Photoshop
Elements (which is still a noble goal), what about approaching Paintshop Pro
about their Photo x2 product. Or, what about approaching the ISV that
created Home Depot's freeware CD for laying out your home design?
Specifically, I think there's a lot of proprietary applications without a
good alternative (think more of the Home Depot or Sysco's "Rio", etc ). I
think there's $$$ to be made for someone who can QA apps with Wine, fix
minor issues, package Wine alongside the app, and finally deliver the
product to an ISV. I don't think this is something the Wine community
itself would be interested in, but I suspect there's someone in the Wine
community who's capable of pulling it off. I think there's a lot of angles
to the idea that could work.
1. Find apps that work pretty much perfectly in Wine.
2. Ask them to declare Wine officially supported.
3. Add them to http://wiki.winehq.org/AppsThatSupportWine
4. Use 3. to add more to 2.
I don't think we'll get much traction with this unless we can reasonably
tell them they only need to test the stable Wine release. But 1.0 is
pretty old these days, so they probably won't bother.
I'll add it to my list of evangelism to do after Wine 1.2 hits. And
also not-so-subtly suggest this is another reason Wine 1.2 needs to
happen sooner ;)
Thanks,
Scott Ritchie
