NewsPro - Wine/Linux

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Thu May 01, 2003 2:00 pm

Hi.
Does NewsPro run with Wine/Linux?

http://www.winehq.org

<Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.>

Sincerely.
Tom

alex · Post by **alex** » Thu May 01, 2003 3:27 pm

I don't know for sure, since it is Windows emulation it may be slow.
Currently newspro is multithreaded (not only worker tasks in the task manager), so if there are any bugs in emulating synchronization objects or windows messaging it may be fatal.

I'm working on an implementation that doesn't rely on Windows except when absolutely necessary, there is a better chance that it will be runnable under Wine with adequate performance Wine (motivation is not only possible ports but rather less chance of interference and so statistical reliability - I mean when someone installs something at random so parts of the system may become faulty - will be higher).

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 01, 2003 3:34 pm

I tried it sometime ago and I could start it up. However I had some problems with it saying may registered version was not registered

alex · Post by **alex** » Thu May 01, 2003 3:39 pm

if registry is emulated properly it should work, newspro loads/saves all its registry keys every time, if it is a new database just register it in help->about. in the future i'm planning to get rid of using windows registry as well, now it is used only within the same session to provide the option to use the same database under different Windows.