Sunday, June 1, 2008

Wine 2.0 wishlist

Wine 1.0 is scheduled for this month, after 15 years of continuous development, I'm grateful to all those who worked day and night to bring to us this amazing piece of software, yet this release leaves a lot to be desired, chief among them is full .Net support, so here is my wishlist for 2.0, assuming it will be out within 5 years from now:
  • Full .Net 2.0 (and later) support
  • Full DX 9 (and later) support
  • Full compatibility with Windows 5 and 6 apps, or at least a significant subset of them
More specifically here are the programs I want to see running on Wine 2.0:
  • Visual Studio 8 (and later)
  • Windows Journal Viewer
Basically those two are the only Windows apps I need (at least now), I know that I wont be needing Visual Studio anymore once DotGNU 1.0 is out.

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