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- Last-modified: 3 Sept 1995 17:30:00 PDT
- Version: 3.5
-
- Wine Frequently Asked Questions & Answers
- v. 3.5 -- October 1995
- by P. David Gardner (pdg@primenet.com)
-
- This is 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
- October 31, 1995 or later, this document is
- is out of date. Please get a new one from one
- of the sites mentioned below.
-
- The following answers have changed since the last issue of this FAQ:
-
- 2.2 Which MS Windows programs do you expect Wine
- to never be able to run at all, and for what
- reason(s). Updated with new information about
- VxD support.
-
- 4.1 Where to get Wine. Updated the links with the
- latest version.
-
- 7.1 Who is responsible for writing and maintaining
- the Wine source code? Updated list of code
- contributors.
-
- Please 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 or software by
- your obtaining, installing, configuring, operating and/or removing Wine.
- If you use ALPHA code, 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
-
- This FAQ is posted monthly to the following mailing list:
-
- linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
- (the alternative to the linux-activist list)
-
- It is also reposted mid-month only to:
-
- comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
-
- The plantext version of this FAQ is also available by anonymous ftp from
- the following systems:
-
- ftp.primenet.com
- /users/p/pdg/Wine.FAQ
-
- tsx-11.mit.edu
- /pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/Wine.FAQ
-
- rtfm.mit.edu
- /pub/usenet-by-group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
- /WINE_(WINdows_Emulator)_Frequently_Asked_Questions
-
- aris.com
- /pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/Wine.FAQ
-
- 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.
-
- This FAQ is also 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.primenet.com/~pdg/wine-faq.html
-
- and it is also available for ftp at:
-
- ftp.primenet.com
- /users/p/pdg/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 question
- 7.2.
-
- Here is a list of the topics covered in this issue of the Wine FAQ:
-
-
- 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
- MS-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 on 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 Doublespaced or Stackered MS-DOS partition. Can Wine
- run MS Windows binaries located in such a partition?
- 3.6 Do I need to have a MS-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 What happens when Windows '95 is released? Will 32-bit Windows
- applications run under Wine?
-
-
- Section 4
- How to Find, Install, Configure and 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 set up for Wine?
- 5.3 Is there a WWW site set up for Wine information?
- 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?
-
-
- And now, the answers to the questions:
-
-
- 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.
-
- When downloading Wine from your ftp site of choice (see question 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.
-
- Weekly patches 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 weekly distribution, so watch those version numbers!
-
-
- 1.4 When will Wine be ready for general distribution?
-
- Because Wine is being developed solely 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?
-
- Here is a list of web sites that maintain lists of successes and failures
- in attempts to run MS Windows programs under Wine:
-
- http://dutifp.twi.tudelft.nl:8000/wine/
- http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dash/wine/working-apps.html
-
- Please keep in mind that since Wine is still a developer's only release,
- programs may 'break' and then run again from release to release. But be
- assured that at least most of the aplets 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. 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/MS Windows.
-
- Also, a number of public domain and shareware games programs found on the
- ftp site ftp.cica.indiana.edu can run under Wine, with varying degrees of
- success.
-
- To date, there have been no reports of successful runs of major MS Windows
- programs such as Word, WordPerfect, Paradox, and the like. Quicken has
- been reported to work from time to time under Wine.
-
- Note that it is now possible, under dosemu, to run MS Windows 3.1 in
- standard mode and run major MS Windows software.
-
- 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 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 MS-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 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 (though there are 32-bit
- native Unix versions of these available now).
-
-
- 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
- MS-DOS and/or MS Windows compilers under Wine?
-
- Wine testers report that DOSEMU, the MS-DOS emulator for Linux, is
- starting to support DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface). This means that
- folks can run MS Windows in standard mode under DOSEMU, and can also run
- (with varied degrees of success) Microsoft and Borland C++ compilers.
-
- However, at last report, Wine is 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. Be aware too that a custom MS Windows program specifically
- written to be compatible with Wine may not work the same as when it is run
- under MS-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 and FreeBSD. The Wine
- development team hopes to attract the interest of 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 is currently being developed specifically for use on Intel x86 CPUs,
- and needs a minimum 80386 CPU. 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. 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 Doublespaced or Stackered MS-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. However, there is a patch for the
- Linux kernel that allows read-only access to a Doublespaced DOS partition,
- and it's available on sunsite.unc.edu as:
-
- sunsite.unc.edu
- /pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/thsfs.tgz (12076 bytes)
-
-
- 3.6 Do I need to have a MS-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. So, currently, you do need to have a DOS partition with MS Windows
- installed on your hard drive to use Wine in a practical manner. Your Unix
- OS must be able to 'see' this partition (check your /etc/fstab file or
- mount the partition manually) in order for Wine to run MS Windows binaries
- in your DOS partition.
-
- However, when it is finished, Wine will not require that you have a MS-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 aplets 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 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 absolutely no bearing on your ability to run MS Windows programs
- under Wine. Wine uses standard X libraries, so no additional ones are
- needed.
-
-
- 3.11 What happens when Windows '95 is released? Will 32-bit Windows
- applications run under Wine?
-
- Wine developers do eventually plan on supporting Win32s, but such support
- is not in the current version 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 an incomplete list of some of the systems where you will find it.
-
- sunsite.unc.edu
- /pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/Wine-951003.tar.gz
-
- tsx-11.mit.edu
- /pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/development/Wine-951003.tar.gz
-
- ftp.infomagic.com
- /pub/mirrors/linux/wine/development/Wine-951003.tar.gz
-
- ftp.funet.fi
- /pub/OS/Linux/ALPHA/Wine/Wine-951003.tar.gz
-
- aris.com
- /pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/development/Wine-951003.tar.gz
-
- It should also be available from any site that mirrors tsx-11 or sunsite.
-
- Here is what's new with this latest release (Wine-951003):
-
- -- New cursor handling
- -- French, Danish and Finnish language support
- -- Lots of Winelib improvements
- -- Preliminary VxD support
- -- Lots of bug fixes
-
- 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.
-
- Diff patches 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. Diff releases follow the same numbering conventions as
- do the general releases, and take the form:
-
- Wine-[yymmdd].diff.gz
-
- Diff patches are available from the following sites:
-
- sunsite.unc.edu
- /pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/Wine-951003.diff.gz
-
- tsx-11.mit.edu
- /pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/development/Wine-951003.diff.gz
-
- ftp.infomagic.com
- /pub/mirrors/linux/wine/development/Wine-951003.diff.gz
-
- ftp.funet.fi
- /pub/OS/Linux/ALPHA/Wine/Wine-951003.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
- question 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 CD purchase.
-
- 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 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 question 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 untar the
- distribution file.
-
-
- 4.6 How do I run an MS Windows program under Wine?
-
- Assuming you are running X already, call up a term 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 MS-DOS, you
- had installed MS Windows on your C: drive under the subdirectory /WINDOWS.
- Under Unix, you have mounted the C: drive 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 MS-DOS partition into your Unix
- filesystem, either by putting the entry into /etc/fstab, or by manually
- mounting it. Remember, it must not be located on a Doublespaced or
- Stackered partition, as neither Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD or Wine cannot
- currently 'see' files located in such 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 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 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 programmers nor the Wine FAQ
- author/maintainer can be held responsible for your deleting any files in
- your filesystem.
-
-
- Section 5
- How To Get Help
-
- 5.1 Is there a Usenet newsgroup for Wine?
-
- Yes. It's called comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, and 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
- be 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 new newsgroup, please urge your
- sysadmin and/or uplink to add it.
-
-
- 5.2 Is there a gopher site set up 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 question 7.2 for inclusion in the
- next edition of the Wine FAQ.
-
-
- 5.3 Is there a WWW site set up for Wine information?
-
- Here are the URLs for a few sites reachable with your favorite web
- browser:
-
- http://www.primenet.com/~pdg/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 the newsgroup 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
- 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 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, Erik Bos, Fons Botman, John Brezak, Andrew Bulhak, John
- Burton, Paul Falstad, Olaf Flebbe, Peter Galbavy, Ramon Garcia, Hans de
- Graaff, Charles M. Hannum, Cameron Heide, Jochen Hoenicke, Jeffrey Hsu,
- Miguel de Icaza, Alexandre Julliard, Jon Konrath, Scott A. Laird, Martin
- von Loewis, Kenneth MacDonald, Peter MacDonald, William Magro, Marcus
- Meissner, Graham Menhennitt, David Metcalfe, Michael Patra, John
- Richardson, Johannes Ruscheinski, Thomas Sandford, Constantine
- Sapuntzakis, Daniel Schepler, Bernd Schmidt, Yngvi Sigurjonsson, Rick
- Sladkey, William Smith, Erik Svendsen, Goran Thyni, Jimmy Tirtawangsa, Jon
- Tombs, Linus Torvalds, Gregory Trubetskoy, Michael Veksler, 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?
-
- The FAQ is being maintained by <a href="./dave.html">Dave Gardner
- <pdg@primenet.com>, who is not connected with the Wine project in any way
- but as the FAQ author/maintainer. Please do not send technical questions
- about the Wine project to the FAQ maintainer, but rather post 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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