RR in Wine

[Peter Alcibiades]

The last time I tried, a year or so ago, it wouldn't install on Wine.  It may
have got better since.  

However, 3.0 on Linux is a great improvement over 2.9, and a huge one over
2.6.1 on Linux, and I would not worry about it, just get the Linux version. 
The big UI deal is that multiple desktops now work as they are supposed to
and file dialogues are native and fonts work properly.  Printing cards has
worked properly since 2.9.   Sqlite seems to work fine.  I have not tried
the various browser functionalities yet but assume they were properly tested
before leaving the factory.

The previous big issue was with printing - not cards, but fields, with
RevPrintField and with Print Field from the file menu.  Not sure whether
these are still an issue.  They are with one Debian installation, but
whether they are specific to it, needs confirmation. 

There is an issue about plugins.  You can't get GLX2 or Quartam for Linux. 
But, you have the new editor which is a great improvement over the previous
one.  I used to use Geany as an editor, which may no longer be necessary.  
Would you get either one to work properly with Rev running under Wine? 
Wouldn't bet on it.  Generally for manipulating text in fields, either to
print or generate reports, there's a lot to be said for Awk.  Its fast,
terse, available for all platforms, comes as standard with all Linux
distributions, and you print fields from the shell by piping the output to
kprinter.

There may be an issue with fonts displaying properly.  One, you have to make
sure you're using fonts which are installed on the configuration being
compiled for.  Two, even if it does, you have to make sure they display
properly.  This is with other Linux distributions as well as with compiling
it for Windows.

It should not be too much of a wall, or too 'HARD', Linux!  Thoughts: 
Whatever anyone tells you about Ubuntu, Debian is the way to go with Linux. 
Hint:  find out how you move from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron, and then
compare it to moving from Etch to Lenny.   And whatever anyone tells you
about Gnome and HIGs, Fluxbox as a window manager/desktop environment is the
kind of thing you are going to want in the end.  A grown man can only use
for so long a plane designed primarily with the aim of preventing a ten year
old from hurting himself with it.  After a while he feels a powerful urge to
use something designed to smooth timber and be kept away from ten year olds.  

If you only buy one book about Linux, get Scott Graneman's Linux Phrasebook. 
If buying two, get Carla Schroders Cookbook also.  Good luck.


Mikey-3 wrote:
> 
> My that's-no-laptop-it's-a-spacestation has gone to the next world.
> 
> I'm thinking of going HARD into the Linux wall.  I see that there are
> RR issues in Linux.
> 
> How well does RR run in Wine?
> 
> 

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