[Lula] Making games with 'Penguin'

[Charles Wyble]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Charles Wyble <charles at thewybles.com> wrote:
>> Take for example Outlook not working under wine. Why is that? Lack of
>> RPC support. It could be done in around 6 months if they accepted the
>> fact that there approach is fundamentally flawed and creates yet another
>> incompatible RPC system. However they refuse to accept the fact, and
>> think that implementing the DLL's will be enough. However there is a lot
>> more involved.
>
> Codeweavers is currently working on getting Outlook running.
> Have you seen the large number of patches fixing COM problems lately?
> It looks like they're making pretty good progress.
I am glad they are improving COM. However thats just the client side. 
There is quite a bit more involved. It is hard to explain. I guess I 
need to write up a detailed article on the issue. There are snippets of 
information on the issue throughout the net.
>
> I have great respect for projects like FreeDCE, and
> would welcome any patches to Wine which use their services
> to make Wine more complete.   
Its not that simple unfortunately. It would require a decent amount of 
rework on wines part. And they don't want to take up the task. They 
would rather do it there way. Unfortunately by forging ahead on there 
own they keep a lot of software from running.
> See for instance the
> Summer of Code project http://wiki.winehq.org/NtlmSigningAndSealing
> which is using a Samba library to improve interoperability with Windows.
> - Dan

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