Installing WordPerfect (was Re:RPM compatability)

[Christopher Browne]

On Feb 4, 2008 5:19 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:47:38PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > That may seem obvious in retrospect; at the time, they had a lot of
> > programmers with heavy MSFT knowledge, and that makes WINE attractive
> > to leverage that knowledge, rather than them having to either:
> >
> > a) Create a second product, because "WP for Unix" would have great
> > gobs of it that would be completely separately developed,
>
> But there was already WP 5.1 code for unix running with an X interface
> for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, SCO Unix, and Xenix.  It wasn't as if they were
> starting from scratch.  Except of course WP6.0 for windows was a mess,
> and if anyone thought taking that windows mess and using wine to make it
> run on linux was a good idea, well bad idea plus an API emulation layer
> does not equal good idea.
>
> > b) Build or buy something akin to Bristol's "emulation of Windows on Unix."
> >
> > To pick WINE as a version of strategy b) isn't *clearly* stupid.
>
> Given the fact the unix code had already been developed before, it
> really was a stupid idea.  No question about it.

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