[cw-discuss] Fireworks and wine

[Jeremy White]

Hmm.  I have to confess that I haven't personally tested
the 8 series of Macromedia products.  The <= MX all worked
fine in CrossOver.

The MX 2004 series did not work, because they used a form
of DRM that wasn't compatible with Wine.

Now we're actually working very hard right now to make those sorts
of copy protection work, so possibly Alexandre has succeeded,
and I didn't know it.  Or perhaps the 8 series applications
no longer use that form of copy protection, or perhaps someone
is using an elicit crack, or perhaps it doesn't actually work :-/.

In any case, it's clear to me that we should get the 8 series and
get to work on testing them, as we're in theory, closing in on
being able to make their copy protection systems work the way
their authors intended (same goes for recent Adobe products).

Finally, the difference between cxoffice and Wine is that cxoffice
is the stable, polished, tested, and supported version of Wine.

We actually do all of our work for cxoffice against Wine *first*,
and then work to polish for each release.  So cxoffice tends
to run a bit behind public Wine; 6.0 is a vintage from the late
fall, essentially.

So Wine is always more bleeding edge and more interesting;
cxoffice is more reliable.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Laurent Dinclaux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there any reason why fireworks8 installs and run using standard
> wine and don't even run using cxoffice?
> 
> Thought cxoffice was an enchanced version of wine....
> 
> Can't this be fixed in a 6.1 update?
> 
> According to franck corner website, it seem DW8 and Flash8 also
> install using wine. (http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=webdesign)
> Havn't tried yet because those works with CXO copying from a windows
> installation.
>