Big things are afoot in the world of Wine. Never before have
we had so many dedicated developers working with their heart
and soul to get us to the coveted Wine 1.0 Stable Release.
The rate of progress is staggering, if not outright
neckbreaking - a lesser person than Alexandre would pretty
much have his hands full just commiting other people's
patches every day, and still he does a lot of
infrastructure work on his own.
Jeremy White and his CodeWeavers team is planning to show
off Wine at Comdex, and since he thought the WineHQ website
looked too dull to show off, he's allocated Jeremy Newman to
effectively revamp the WineHQ website ASAP. Well, it might
need it anyway, and Newman's new design doesn't look too
bad.
Well, I did predict in WWN #64 that we were close to a major
milestone, and indeed, only a couple of weeks later we (or
mostly Ian Schmidt) had Slashdot coverage for being able to
run MS Office 2000. Poor Ian's website didn't survive the
onslaught of screenshot viewers... but it shows that Wine
1.0 is closer than ever.
In personal news, I'm going back to TransGaming
Technologies's payroll, so that I can convince my bank
to loan me enough money to buy myself a home in the Oslo
area. I can't live on the street (my computer could get
stolen, shiver), and if I'm going to get a university degree
while I'm still relatively young, then I can't just move
back to Karasjok either... so it's time to become a slave of
capitalism, wages, and debts. And NDAs issued by companies
like TransGaming...