[Lula] I always wanted to fix a bug...

[al@danial.org]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:30:20PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I've been doing "dogfood testing" of wine by using Windows Firefox
> under Wine on Linux as my main web browser.

> b) I want to encourage other people to jump in and start
>    running the Windows version of their favorite apps on Linux
>    using Wine to help improve the taste of our dogfood

I stumbled across an easily reproducible bug in Wine (v0.9.11) last week--
easily reproducible, that is, if you own a copy of the math package
matlab (v7.0.4; http://www.mathworks.com/).  While winehq.org shows
someone was able to run this version of matlab from Wine 
(http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=3082) there were no 
details describing the person's setup.  Presumably he first installed 
matlab in Windows on a dual-boot machine then accessed this installation
from Linux.  What I'm trying to do is install the Windows version of matlab 
from Wine.  Wine fails pretty quickly with an error like "Unable to find 
main."

I haven't filed a Wine bug report because I figure it is a stretch
to expect Wine developers to own matlab and thus be able to reproduce
the problem.

In case you're wondering why I'm not running matlab natively in Linux--
I do that too.  The code I'm currently trying to run came from many
sources, one of which supplied only a Windows DLL.         -- Al
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