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From: pdg@primenet.com (Dave Gardner)
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Subject: WINE (WINdows Emulator) Frequently Asked Questions
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Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and
their answers) about Wine, the WINdows Emulator project. This
should be read by anyone wishing to know more about the development
of this programming project, which will allow users to run MS Windows
binary programs under certain Unixes and Unix clones.
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Archive-name: windows-emulation/wine-faq
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Last-modified: 16 May 1996 07:46:00 PDT
Version: 4.0
URL: http://www.asgardpro.com/dave/wine-faq.html
Wine (Windows Emulator)
Frequently Asked Questions & Answers
v. 4,0, June 1996
by P. David Gardner
Table of Contents
What's New
Section 0: General Information
Section 1: Overview
1.1: What is Wine, and what is it supposed to do?
1.2: What does the word Wine> stand for?
1.3: What is the current version of Wine?
1.4: When will Wine be ready for general distribution?
Section 2: Program Compatibility
2.1: Which MS Windows programs does Wine currently run?
2.2: Which MS Windows programs do you expect Wine
never to be able to run at all, and for what
reason(s)?
2.3: Will MS Windows programs typically run faster
or slower under UNIX and Wine than they do under
MS-DOS and MS Windows? Will certain kinds of
programs run slower or faster?
2.4: Are there any advantages or disadvantages to
running MS Windows applications under Wine
that I should be aware of?
2.5: Will Wine support MS Windows networked
applications that use WINSOCK.DLL
2.6: I'm a software developer who wants to use
UNIX to develop programs rather than MS-DOS,
but I need to write MS-DOS and MS Windows
programs as well. Will I be able to run my
favorite DOS and/or MS Windows compilers under
Wine?
Section 3: Hardware/Software Considerations
3.1: Under what hardware platform(s) and operating
system(s) will Wine run?
3.2: What minimum CPU must I have in my computer to be
able to run Wine and MS Windows applications
smoothly?
3.3: How much disk space will the Wine source
code and binaries take on my hard drive?
3.4: How much RAM do I need to have on my UNIX
system to be able to run Wine and MS Windows
applications smoothly?
3.5: I have a compressed MS-DOS partition. Can Wine
run MS Windows binaries located in such a
partition?
3.6: Do I need to have a DOS partition on my
system to use Wine? Does MS Windows need
to be loaded into that partition in order
to run MS Windows programs under Wine?
3.7: If Wine completely replaces MS Windows,
will it duplicate all of the functions of
MS Windows?
3.8: Will I be able to install MS Windows
applications in any UNIX filesystem?
3.9: Will Wine run only under X, or can
it run in character mode?
3.10: Will Wine run under any X window
manager?
3.11: Will 32-bit Windows 95 or Win NT
applications run under Wine?
Section 4: How to Find, Install, Configure & Run Wine
4.1: Where can I get Wine?
4.2: If I do not have an Internet account, how can I
get Wine?
4.3: How do I install Wine on my hard drive?
4.4: How do I compile the Wine distribution
source code?
4.5: How do I configure Wine to run on my system?
4.6: How do I run an MS Windows program under
Wine?
4.7: I have installed and configured Wine, but
Wine cannot find MS Windows on my drive. Where
did I go wrong?
4.8: I think I've found a bug. How do I report this bug
to the Wine programming team?
4.9: I was able to get various MS Windows
programs to run, but their menus do not work.
What is wrong?
4.10: I have run various MS Windows programs
but since the program menus do not work,
how can I exit these programs?
4.11: How do I remove Wine from my computer?
Section 5: How to Get Help
5.1: Is there a Usenet newsgroup for Wine?
5.2: Is there a gopher site for Wine?
5.3: Is there a WWW site for Wine?
5.4: Is there a mailing list for Wine?
Section 6: How You Can Help
6.1: How can I help contribute to the Wine
project, and in what way(s)?
6.2: I want to help beta test Wine. How can I do
this?
6.3: I have written some code that I would like to
submit to the Wine project. How do I go about
doing this?
Section 7: Who is Responsible for Wine?
7.1: Who is responsible for writing and maintaining
the Wine source code?
7.2: Who is responsible for writing and maintaining the
Wine FAQ?
7.3: Who are the folks and organizations who have
contributed money or equipment to the Wine project?
What's New
The following answers have changed since the last issue of this FAQ:
4.1: Where can I get Wine?
7.1: Who is responsible for writing and
maintaining the Wine source code?
Section 0: General Information
This is the monthly posting of the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for
the Wine development project. It contains both general and technical
information about Wine: project status, what it is and what it does, how
to obtain and configure and run it, and more. Please read this FAQ
carefully before you post questions about Wine to Usenet to see if your
question is already answered here first.
NOTE: If you are reading this FAQ and it is June 30, 1996 or later, this
document is out of date. Please get a new one from one of the sites
mentioned below.
Please also note that since Wine is still alpha code, it may or may not
work to varying degrees on your system. Also note that from release to
release, programs may work and then not work, then work again. Neither
the Wine developers nor the Wine FAQ author/maintainer can be held
responsible for any damage that may be caused to your computer hardware,
software or data by your obtaining, installing, configuring, operating
and/or removing Wine. If you use Wine, you use it completely at your own
risk.
The Wine FAQ is posted monthly to these newsgroups:
comp.emulators.announce
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.announce
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce
comp.os.linux.answers
comp.windows.x.i386unix
comp.answers
news.answers
The Wine FAQ is reposted mid-month to the following newsgroup:
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
The plaintext version of the Wine FAQ is available by anonymous ftp from
the following systems:
ftp://ftp.asgardpro.com/users/d/dave/Wine.FAQ
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/Wine.FAQ
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/
WINE_(WINdows_Emulator)_Frequently_Asked_Questions
ftp://aris.com/pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/Wine.FAQ
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/Wine.FAQ
and quite likely most of the other sites around the globe that mirror the
Wine distribution from the Wine project's main distribution site,
tsx-11.mit.edu.
The Wine FAQ is available on the World Wide Web (WWW), reachable with any
web browser such as Mosaic or Netscape, or the ASCII browser lynx, at the
following URL:
http://www.asgardpro.com/dave/wine-faq.html
If you have any technical questions about Wine, please post these to the
newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. If you have any suggestions for
corrections, changes, expansion or further clarification of this FAQ,
please send them to the Wine FAQ author and maintainer listed in 7.2.
Section 1: Overview
1.1: What is Wine, and what is it supposed to do?
Wine is both a program loader and an emulation library that will allow
UNIX users to run MS Windows applications on an x86 hardware platform
running under some UNIXes. The program loader will load and execute an MS
Windows application binary, while the emulation library will take calls
to MS Windows functions and translate these into calls to UNIX/X, so that
equivalent functionality is achieved.
MS Windows binaries will run directly; there will be no need for machine
level emulation of program instructions. Sun has reported better
performance with their version of WABI than is actually achieved under MS
Windows, so theoretically the same result is possible under Wine.
1.2: What does the word Wine stand for?
The word Wine stands for one of two things: WINdows Emulator, or Wine Is
Not an Emulator. Both are right. Use whichever one you like best.
1.3: What is the current version of Wine?
A new version of Wine is distributed about once a month. You will be able
to keep up on all the latest releases by reading the newsgroup
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, where new release announcements are made.
When downloading Wine from your ftp site of choice (see 4.1 for some of
these choices), you can make sure you are getting the latest version by
watching the version numbers in the distribution filename. For instance,
the distribution released on June 20, 1994 was called Wine-940620.tar.gz.
Patch files are also available. If you are current to the previous
version, you can download and apply just the current patch file rather
than the entire new distribution. The patch filenames follow the same
conventions as the monthly distribution.
1.4: When will Wine be ready for general distribution?
Because Wine is being developed by volunteers, it is difficult to predict
when it will be ready for general distribution. Between 90-98% of the
functions used by MS Windows applets, and 80-90% of the functions used by
major programs, have been at least partially implemented at this time.
However, the remaining 10% will likely take another 90% of the time, not
including debugging.
Section 2: Program Compatibility
2.1: Which MS Windows programs does Wine currently run?
The newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine contains posts that tell of
successes, partial successes and failures to run certain MS Windows
programs under Wine. Also, there are a few web sites that maintain lists
of successes and failures in attempts to run MS Windows programs under
Wine, and these are:
http://dutifp.twi.tudelft.nl:8000/wine/
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dash/wine/working-apps.html
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~wildfire/
Please keep in mind that since Wine is still a developers'-only release,
programs may 'break' and then run again from release to release. But be
assured that at least most of the applets distributed with MS Windows now
run to a degree of success.
For instance, Solitaire (SOL.EXE) runs just fine now, including menu
selections, as long as you don't try to access the help menu. Other
applets work as well. Many folks are starting to report that major
programs are beginning to work to varying degrees as well.
But Windows colors can vary from system to system, depending on your
video card and monitor, but it's been reported that colors are generally
darker under X and Wine than under native DOS and MS Windows.
Also, a number of public domain and shareware games programs found on the
ftp site ftp.winsite.com can run under Wine, with varying degrees of
success. One of these is Paintshop Pro.
Some folks have reported that it is now possible, using dosemu, to run MS
Windows 3.1 in standard mode and run major MS Windows software. Others
report that standard mode doesn't work at all, but that enhanced mode
does. Results are inconsistent and thus the results you get from trying
dosemu to run MS Windows 3.1 in any mode will be equally inconsistent.
Keep an eye on the newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine for
up-to-date reports of successes.
2.2: Which MS Windows programs do you expect Wine never to be able to run
at all, and for what reason(s)?
Back when work on Wine was just getting started, it was said that any MS
Windows program that requires a special enhanced mode device driver (VxD)
that cannot be rewritten specifically for Wine, will not run under Wine.
While this is quite likely still a true statement for the most part,
there is preliminary VxD support being added to Wine at this time.
2.3: Will MS Windows programs typically run faster or slower under UNIX
and Wine than they do under DOS and MS Windows? Will certain kinds of
programs run slower or faster?
Programs should typically run at about the same speed under Wine as they
do under DOS and MS Windows.
2.4: Are there any advantages or disadvantages to running MS Windows
applications under Wine that I should be aware of?
As with OS/2, you will be running 16-bit MS Windows applications in a
32-bit operating system using emulation techniques, so you will have
similar advantages and disadvantages.
There will be crash protection. That is, each MS Windows application
running under Wine will be running in its own X window and its own
portion of reserved memory, so that if one MS Windows application
crashes, it will not crash the other MS Windows or UNIX applications that
you may have running at the same time.
Also, MS Windows programs should run at about the same speed under Wine
as they do under MS Windows. When Wine is finished, you will be able to
run your favorite MS Windows applications in a UNIX environment.
However, be aware that any application written for a 16-bit operating
system will run much less efficiently than its 32-bit cousin, so if you
find a 32-bit application that fits your needs, you will be much better
off switching.
2.5: Will Wine support MS Windows networked applications that use
WINSOCK.DLL?
Yes, Wine will support such applications. You will be able to run MS
Windows applications such as Netscape and Mosaic, WS-FTP and TrumpTel and
the like (though there are 32-bit native UNIX versions or a n alogs of
most of these programs available now).
2.6: I'm a software developer who wants to use UNIX to develop programs
rather than DOS, but I need to write DOS and MS Windows programs as well.
Will I be able to run my favorite DOS and/or MS Windows compilers under
Wine?
Wine testers report that dosemu, the DOS emulator for Linux, supports
DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface). This means that folks can run MS
Windows in standard mode under dosemu, and can also run (with varying
degrees of success) the Microsoft and Borland C++ compilers.
However, at last report, Wine itself cannot run these compilers, nor is
it able to run any MS Windows debuggers, and may not be able to for some
time.
Keep in mind that Wine is being designed to run existing MS Windows
applications. A custom MS Windows program specifically written to be
compatible with Wine may not work the same as when it is run under DOS
and MS Windows.
Section 3: Hardware/Software Considerations
3.1: Under what hardware platform(s) and operating system(s) will Wine
run?
Wine is being developed specifically to run on the Intel x86 class of
CPUs under certain UNIXes that run on the x86 platform. UNIXes currently
being tested for Wine compatibility include Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and
Unixware, and there is now support for SCO OpenServer 5. The Wine
development team hopes to attract the interest of other commercial UNIX
and UNIX clone vendors as well.
3.2: What minimum CPU must I have in my computer to be able to run Wine
and MS Windows applications smoothly?
Wine won't run on any ix86 CPU less than an 80386. It is known to also
work in the 80486 and Pentium CPUs. Beyond that, the basic test is, if
you can run X11 now, you should be able to run Wine and MS Windows
applications under it. As always, the faster your CPU, the better. Having
a math coprocessor is unimportant. However, having a graphics accelerated
video card supported by X will help greatly.
3.3: How much disk space will the Wine source code and binaries take on
my hard drive?
It is anticipated that when Wine is completed, you will need
approximately 6-8 megabytes of hard drive space to store and compile the
source code.
3.4: How much RAM do I need to have on my UNIX system to be able to run
Wine and MS Windows applications smoothly?
If you can run X smoothly on your UNIX system now, you should be able to
run Wine and MS Windows applications just fine too. A Wine workstation
should realistically have at least 8 megabytes of RAM and a 12 megabyte
swap partition. More is better, of course.
3.5: I have a Drivespaced, Doublespaced or Stackered DOS partition. Can
Wine run MS Windows binaries located in such a partition?
Only if the operating system supports mounting those types of drives.
Currently, NetBSD and FreeBSD do not. There is a Linux filesystem driver
that will allow read/write access through Doublespaced *and* Drivespace
1.0 drives. More specifically, it supports mounting DOS 6.0 and 6.2
Doublespaced, DOS 6.22 Drivespaced, and Windows 95 Doublespaced
compressed partitions (read and write access, but write access is
*slow*). It can be found at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/
dosfs/dmsdosfs-0.5.8.tgz
3.6: Do I need to have a DOS partition on my system to use Wine? Does MS
Windows need to be loaded into that partition in order to run MS Windows
programs under Wine?
You do not need DOS or MS Windows to install, configure and run Wine.
However, Wine has to be able to 'see' an MS Windows binary if it is to
run it.
Some folks have successfully installed and run some small programs in
their UNIX filesystem without having a DOS partition or MS Windows.
However, not all programs will work this way yet. Some programs'
installation programs want to distribute some of the package's files into
the /windows and /windows/system directories in order to run, and unless
these exist on your system, those programs will not install correctly and
probably will not run right or run at all.
If you have a DOS partition with MS Windows installed in it, make sure
that your UNIX system can 'see' this partition (check your /etc/fstab
file or mount the partition manually) so that Wine can run the MS Windows
binaries located in the DOS partition.
When it is finished, Wine will not require that you have a DOS partition
on your system at all, meaning that you will not need to have MS Windows
installed either. Wine programmers will provide an application setup
program to allow you to install your MS Windows programs straight from
your distribution diskettes into your UNIX filesystem, or from within
your UNIX filesystem if you ftp an MS Windows program over the Internet.
3.7: If Wine completely replaces MS Windows, will it duplicate all of the
functions of MS Windows?
Most of them, yes. However, some applications and applets that come with
MS Windows, such as File Manager and Calculator, can be considered by
some to be redundant, since 32-bit UNIX programs that duplicate these
applet's functions already exist.
3.8: Will I be able to install MS Windows applications in any UNIX
filesystem?
Wine is written to be filesystem independent, so MS Windows applications
will install and run under any filesystem supported by your brand of
UNIX.
3.9: Will Wine run only under X, or can it run in character mode?
Being a GUI (graphical user interface), MS Windows does not have a
character mode, so there will be no character mode for Wine. So yes, you
must run Wine under X.
3.10: Will Wine run under any X window manager?
Wine is window manager independent, so the X window manager you choose to
run has no bearing on your ability to run MS Windows programs under Wine.
Wine uses the standard X libraries, so no additional ones are needed.
3.11: Will 32-bit Windows 95 or Win NT applications run under Wine?
Wine developers have already incorporated some Win32 code into Wine, and
improvements appear with every new release of Wine.
Section 4: How to Find, Install, Configure and Run Wine
4.1: Where can I get Wine?
Wine can now be found on quite a few systems throughout the Internet.
Here is a list of the official distribution sites where you will find it:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/
development/Wine-960528.tar.gz
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/
development/Wine-960528.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/
wine/development/Wine-960528.tar.gz
ftp://aris.com/pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/
development/Wine-960528.tar.gz
It should also be available from any site that mirrors tsx-11 or sunsite.
Notes from the release:
------ [ begin included text ] ------
This is release 960528 of Wine the MS Windows emulator. This is still a
developer's only release. There are many bugs and many unimplemented API
features. Most applications still do not work.
Patches should be submitted to julliard@lrc.epfl.ch. Please don't forget
to include a ChangeLog entry.
WHAT'S NEW with Wine-960528: (see ChangeLog for details)
- First attempt at inter-task SendMessage(); still broken.
- Lots of bug fixes.
See the README file in the distribution for installation instructions.
If you submitted a patch, please check to make sure it has been included
in the new release.
If you want to get the new releases faster, you can subscribe to the
wine-patches mailing list by sending a mail containing 'subscribe
wine-patches your_address' to majordomo@tiger.informatik.hu- berlin.de.
To avoid overloading the mail host, please subscribe only if you really
intend to test the new releases as soon as they're out.
------ [ end included text ] ------
Some of these ftp sites may archive previous versions of Wine as well as
the current one. To determine which is the latest one, look at the
distribution filename, which will take the form:
Wine-[yymmdd].tar.gz
Simply replace [yymmdd] in the distribution filename with the numbers for
year, month and date respectively. The latest one is the one to get.
Patch files are also available, so you don't have to download, install
and configure the entire distribution each week if you are current to the
previous release. Patch file release names follow the same numbering
convention as do the general releases, and take the form:
Wine-[yymmdd].diff.gz
Patch files are available from the following sites:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/
development//Wine-960528.diff.gz
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/
development/Wine-960528.diff.gz
ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/
wine/development/Wine-960528.diff.gz
ftp://aris.com/pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/
development/Wine-960528.diff.gz
Note that any mirror of tsx-11 will likely carry the Wine distribution
and diff files, but may not be listed here in this FAQ. If you are
mirroring the Wine distribution from the tsx-11 site and wish to be
listed here in this FAQ, please send email to the FAQ author/maintainer
listed in 7.2.
4.2: If I do not have an Internet account, how can I get Wine?
Some CD-ROM archives of Internet sites, notably those from Walnut Creek
that archive ftp.cdrom.com and sunsite.unc.edu, do include some versions
of Wine on their CD releases. However, the age of these distributions
should always be questioned, as the 'snapshot' of the ftp site may have
been taken anywhere from 1-4 months (or more) prior to the CD's pressing
date.
Your best bet to get the very latest distribution of Wine, if you do not
have your own Internet account, is to find a friend who does have an
Internet account and have him/her ftp the necessary files for you. If you
have an email account on a BBS that can reach the Internet through a
gateway, you may be able to use 'email ftp' to get the Wine release sent
to you; check with your BBS system operator for details.
If you are running a BBS that is not connected to the Internet but does
offer the Wine distribution for download, and would like to be listed in
this FAQ, please forward such information to the FAQ author/maintainer as
listed in 7.2.
4.3: How do I install Wine on my hard drive?
Just un-gzip and un-tar the file, and follow the instructions contained
in the README file that will be located in the base Wine directory.
4.4: How do I compile the Wine distribution source code?
4.5: How do I configure Wine to run on my system?
All of the directions to perform these two steps are located in the
README file that will be located in the base Wine directory after you
ungzip and untar the distribution file.
4.6: How do I run an MS Windows program under Wine?
Assuming you are running X already, call up an xterm window. Then, at the
shell prompt, type:
wine [/path/progname]
Another X window will pop up on top of the shell window and the binary
should begin to execute.
Let's assume that you want to run MS Windows' Solitaire. Under DOS, you
had previously installed MS Windows on your C: drive under the
subdirectory /WINDOWS. Under UNIX, you have mounted the C: dri ve under
/dos/c. To run MS Windows Solitaire, you would type:
wine /dos/c/windows/sol.exe
4.7: I have installed and configured Wine, but Wine cannot find MS
Windows on my drive. Where did I go wrong?
First, make sure you have mounted your DOS partition into your UNIX
filesystem, either by putting the entry into /etc/fstab, or by manually
mounting it. Remember too that unless your version of UNIX can see
through it, or you are running a utility that can see through it, your
DOS partition must not be located on a Drivespaced, Doublespaced or
Stackered partition, as neither Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD or Wine can
(without add-ons) currently 'see' files located in these compressed DOS
partitions.
Next, check your path statements in the wine.conf file. No capital
letters may be used in paths, as they are automatically converted to
lowercase.
4.8: I think I've found a bug. How do I report this bug to the Wine
programming team?
Bug reports should be posted to the following newsgroup:
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
4.9: I was able to get various MS Windows programs to run, but their
menus do not work. What is wrong?
Wine is not complete at this time, so the menus may not work. They will
in time as more of the MS Windows API calls are included in Wine.
4.10: I have run various MS Windows programs but since the program menus
do not work, how can I exit these programs?
Kill the xterm shell window that you called up to run your MS Windows
program, and the X window that appeared with the program will be killed
too.
4.11: How do I remove Wine from my computer?
All you have to do is to type:
rm -fR [/path/]Wine*
Make sure you specify the exact path when using the powerful rm -fR
command. If you are afraid you might delete something important, or might
otherwise delete other files within your filesystem, change into each
Wine subdirectory singly and delete the files found there manually, one
file or directory at a time. Neither the Wine developers and programmers,
nor the Wine FAQ author/maintainer, can be held responsible for your
deleting any files in your own filesystem.
Section 5: How to Get Help
5.1: Is there a Usenet newsgroup for Wine?
Yes, and it's called:
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
The newsgroup's charter states that it will consist of announcements and
discussion about Wine. The newsgroup serves as a place for developers to
discuss Wine, and for minor announcements for the general public. Major
announcements will b e crossposted to other appropriate groups, such as
the newsgroups comp.os.linux.announce, comp.windows.x.announce and
comp.emulators.announce.
If your Usenet site does not carry this newsgroup, please urge your
sysadmin and/or uplink to add it.
5.2: Is there a gopher site for Wine?
To the best of my knowledge at the time of this writing, no. If you are
installing or maintain a Gopher site pertaining to Wine, please contact
the FAQ author/maintainer as noted in 7.2 for inclusion in the next
edition of the Wine FAQ.
5.3: Is there a WWW site for Wine?
Here are the URLs for a few sites reachable with your favorite web
browser:
http://www.asgardpro.com/dave/wine-faq.html
http://www.thepoint.com/unix/emulate/wine/index.html
http://daedalus.dra.hmg.gb/gale/wine/wine.html
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dash/wine/index.html
If you are installing or maintain a WWW page pertaining to Wine, please
inform the FAQ author/maintainer as detailed in 7.2 for inclusion in the
next edition of the Wine FAQ.
5.4: Is there a mailing list for Wine?
There is a seldom-used developers-only mailing list, whose contents are
planned to be ported into comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. If you are a
Wine developer, or want to become one, you are welcome to join the list.
Please leave a message on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine expressing your
interest.
Those with a general interest in Wine should participate in the
newsgroup.
Section 6: How You Can Help
6.1: How can I help contribute to the Wine project, and in what way(s)?
You can contribute programming skills, or monetary or equipment
donations, to aid the Wine developers in reaching their goal. To find out
who, what, where, when and why, please post your desire to contribute to
the following newsgroup:
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
6.2: I want to help beta test Wine. How can I do this?
Beta testers are currently not needed, as Wine is still Alpha code at
this time. However, anyone is welcome to download the latest version and
try it out at any time.
6.3: I have written some code that I would like to submit to the Wine
project. How do I go about doing this?
Send your weekly code contributions to the following mail alias:
wine-new@amscons.com
You should still verify that your code was included in the subsequent
release of Wine, as project managers cannot guarantee that the mail
server will not suffer some computer failure that will cause loss of your
message and code after it is received.
Section 7: Who is Responsible for Wine?
7.1: Who is responsible for writing and maintaining the Wine source code?
Wine is available thanks to the work of Bob Amstadt, Dag Asheim, Martin
Ayotte, Ross Biro, Uwe Bonnes, Erik Bos, Fons Botman, John Brezak, Andrew
Bulhak, John Burton, Niels de Carpentier, Roman Dolejsi, Frans van
Dorsselaer, Paul Falstad, Olaf Flebbe, Peter Galbavy, Ramon Garcia, Hans
de Graaff, Charles M. Hannum, John Harvey, Cameron Heide, Jochen
Hoenicke, Onno Hovers, Jeffrey Hsu, Miguel de Icaza, Jukka Iivonen,
Alexandre Julliard, Jochen Karrer, Andreas Kirschbaum, Albrecht Kleine,
Jon Konrath, Alex Korobka, Greg Kreider, Anand Kumria, Scott A. Laird,
Martin von Loewis, Kenneth MacDonald, Peter MacDonald, William Magro,
Juergen Marquardt, Marcus Meissner, Graham Menhennitt, David Metcalfe,
Steffen Moeller, Philippe De Muyter, Itai Nahshon, Michael Patra, Jim
Peterson, Robert Pouliot, Keith Reynolds, John Richardson, Johannes
Ruscheinski, Thomas Sandford, Constantine Sapuntzakis, Daniel Schepler,
Ulrich Schmid, Bernd Schmidt, Yngvi Sigurjonsson, Rick Sladkey, William
Smith, Erik Svendsen, Tristan Tarrant, Andrew Taylor, Duncan C Thomson,
Goran Thyni, Jimmy Tirtawangsa, Jon Tombs, Linus Torvalds, Gregory
Trubetskoy, Michael Veksler, Sven Verdoolaege, Eric Warnke, Manfred
Weichel, Morten Welinder, Jan Willamowius, Carl Williams, Karl Guenter
Wuensch, Eric Youngdale, and James Youngman.
7.2: Who is responsible for writing and maintaining the Wine FAQ?
This FAQ was written and is being maintained by Dave Gardner
(dave@areason.asgardpro.com). Please do not send technical questions
about the Wine project to the FAQ maintainer, but rather pos t them to
the newsgroup.
7.3: Who are the folks and organizations who have contributed money or
equipment to the Wine project?
People and organizations who have given generous contributions of money
and equipment include David L. Harper, Bob Hepple, Mark A. Horton, Kevin
P. Lawton, the Syntropy Institute, and James Woulfe.
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Dave Gardner
pdg@primenet.com, dave@asgardpro.com