Dont know if iys the done thing, but I contacted the writer of an app I
maintain in AppDB, to point out that his app runs perfectly under Linux and
Wine.
Straught away he modified his webpage to include the fact, and a link to the
AppDB page for his application.
Cheers,
Ron.
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to the most righteous war.
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On Saturday 17 November 2007 19:58:26 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:> Dont know if iys the done thing, but I contacted the writer of an app I > maintain in AppDB, to point out that his app runs perfectly under Linux and > Wine. > > Straught away he modified his webpage to include the fact, and a link to > the AppDB page for his application. > > Cheers, > > Ron.That's great! Alexander N. S?rnes
On Saturday November 17 2007 18:58, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:> Dont know if iys the done thing, but I contacted the writer of an app I > maintain in AppDB, to point out that his app runs perfectly under Linux and > Wine. > > Straught away he modified his webpage to include the fact, and a link to > the AppDB page for his application.Just out of curiosity what program is this? I know some other Windows programs with official website where user can find information about possibility of running them in Linux using WINE and this is officially supported. For example, on main pages of NeatVideo and NeatImage (http://www.neatimage.com/ and http://www.neatvideo.com/ ) you can find label "Runs in Wine in Linux". Personally I think that it is great when developers of Windows software understands that WINE might be very useful to support both Linux and Windows easily without rewriting software.
Don't forget to answer to the list so others can see the discussion. On Monday November 19 2007 20:26, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:> On Monday 19 November 2007, my mailbox was graced by a missive > > from "L. Rahyen" <research at science.su> who wrote: > > > Dont know if iys the done thing, but I contacted the writer of an app I > > > maintain in AppDB, to point out that his app runs perfectly under Linux > > > and Wine. > > > > > > Straught away he modified his webpage to include the fact, and a link > > > to the AppDB page ?for his application. > > > > ????????Just out of curiosity what program is this? > > ????????I know some other Windows programs with official website where > > user can find information about possibility of running them in Linux > > using WINE and this is officially supported. For example, on main pages > > of NeatVideo and NeatImage (http://www.neatimage.com/ and > > http://www.neatvideo.com/ ) you can find label "Runs in Wine in Linux". > > ????????Personally I think that it is great when developers of Windows > > software understands that WINE might be very useful to support both Linux > > and Windows easily without rewriting software. > > It is called "G7toWin", and is a utility for exchanging data between a GPS > receiver and a PC. > > More details on > http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1445 > and > http://gpsinformation.org/ronh/Thanks for the information.
On 17/11/2007, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:> Dont know if iys the done thing, but I contacted the writer of an app I > maintain in AppDB, to point out that his app runs perfectly under Linux and > Wine. > Straught away he modified his webpage to include the fact, and a link to the > AppDB page for his application.Yes :-) Developers of open source Windows apps in particular are in my experience very happy to hear that the apps work under Wine, and will consider sufficiently detailed problem reports to be bugs in need of fixing. But even freeware/shareware Windows developers would be worth contacting with an appdb listing and problem reports. - d.
"L. Rahyen" <research at science.su> writes:> On Saturday November 17 2007 18:58, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: >> Dont know if iys the done thing, but I contacted the writer of an app I >> maintain in AppDB, to point out that his app runs perfectly under Linux and >> Wine. >> >> Straught away he modified his webpage to include the fact, and a link to >> the AppDB page for his application. > > Just out of curiosity what program is this? > I know some other Windows programs with official website where user can find > information about possibility of running them in Linux using WINE and this is > officially supported. For example, on main pages of NeatVideo and NeatImage > (http://www.neatimage.com/ and http://www.neatvideo.com/ ) you can find > label "Runs in Wine in Linux". > Personally I think that it is great when developers of Windows software > understands that WINE might be very useful to support both Linux and Windows > easily without rewriting software.Seconded! -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit.