So this is good news - even if you cannot see it.
Very, very little. The main difference is that we improved Wine to the
point
where it could run the Windows version. We then bundled a copy of
Wine
with Picasa, and called that Picasa for Linux. (More or less; there
are a few
fine points that doesn't cover, but it's pretty close.)
> I try to use Windows version on my Linux desctop over Wine - it works.
Ah, good. Then our patches did the trick :-)
I assure you, large parts of Picasa didn't work on Wine before we got
started.
You can see the list of patches we committed at
http://code.google.com/wine.html
- Dan
But there are a lot of those "old hopeless apps" you talk
about (think Visual Basic 6 database apps!).
Having those run well would make it easier for businesses
and governments to switch to Linux, so it's worth improving Wine, IMHO.
Why you just not make native Linux port? You may use Qt as library for
many platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS X). In this case you may
recompile sources for all this platforms and get native apps for each
platform.
> You can see the list of patches we committed at
> http://code.google.com/wine.html
Wow ;)
I would prefer that all new developent be done cross-platform. Picasa
was already written, though, so it was a good candidate for Wine. That
let the Picasa team focus on new projects. See my writeup at
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-May/047806.html
We knew that some people would object to using Wine for this port, but
we felt Wine was up to the task, and I think the Linux community will
benefit from a strong Wine project.
- Dan
I would prefer that all new developent be done cross-platform. Picasa
What Google has done is a simple quick and dirty.
Shame on you!