| Alexandre Julliard | 71ee13a | 2004-04-08 22:38:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | This is release 20040408 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on |
| Douglas Ridgway | 692389d | 1998-11-22 16:56:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | Unix. This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs |
| 3 | and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work |
| 4 | correctly. |
| Alexandre Julliard | 3a5816f | 1994-12-27 14:11:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| Alexandre Julliard | 71ee13a | 2004-04-08 22:38:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20040408: (see ChangeLog for details) |
| 7 | - DOS devices and drives are now configured through symlinks. |
| 8 | - Many shell32 improvements. |
| 9 | - New task manager merged from ReactOS. |
| 10 | - First version of wineprefixcreate tool for initial setup. |
| Alexandre Julliard | ab936a6 | 2003-01-16 02:42:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | - Lots of bug fixes. |
| Alexandre Julliard | 3a5816f | 1994-12-27 14:11:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | |
| 13 | See the README file in the distribution for installation instructions. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Because of lags created by using mirror, this message may reach you before |
| 16 | the release is available at the ftp sites. The sources will be available |
| 17 | from the following locations: |
| 18 | |
| Alexandre Julliard | 71ee13a | 2004-04-08 22:38:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20040408.tar.gz |
| 20 | http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/Wine-20040408.tar.gz |
| Alexandre Julliard | e2abbb1 | 1995-03-19 17:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
| Alexandre Julliard | 15dfb4d | 2000-12-03 04:29:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | It should also be available from any other site that mirrors ibiblio.org. |
| Alexandre Julliard | 21c3dfa | 2002-11-25 22:45:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | These locations also hold pre-built documentation packages in various |
| 24 | formats: wine-doc-html.tar.gz, wine-doc-txt.tar.gz, |
| 25 | wine-doc-pdf.tar.gz and wine-doc-ps.tar.gz. |
| Alexandre Julliard | 3a5816f | 1994-12-27 14:11:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | |
| Alexandre Julliard | 4ba574d | 1998-10-18 17:19:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | You can also get the current source directly from the CVS tree. Check |
| Dimitrie O. Paun | c023254 | 2003-11-26 03:55:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | http://www.winehq.org/cvs for details. |
| Alexandre Julliard | 4ba574d | 1998-10-18 17:19:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | |
| Dimitrie O. Paun | c023254 | 2003-11-26 03:55:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | Patches should be submitted to "wine-patches@winehq.org". Please |
| Alexandre Julliard | 6d12991 | 2003-04-08 23:37:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | don't forget to include a ChangeLog entry. If you submitted a patch, |
| 32 | please check to make sure it has been included in the new release. |
| Alexandre Julliard | 3a5816f | 1994-12-27 14:11:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | |
| Alexandre Julliard | 65fcd9e | 2001-03-26 20:57:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | If you want to receive by mail a patch against the previous release |
| 35 | when a new one is released, you can subscribe to the mailing list at |
| Dimitrie O. Paun | c023254 | 2003-11-26 03:55:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-releases . |
| Alexandre Julliard | 3a5816f | 1994-12-27 14:11:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | |
| Alexandre Julliard | d37eb36 | 1997-07-20 16:23:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file |
| 39 | AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list. |
| Alexandre Julliard | 3a5816f | 1994-12-27 14:11:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | |
| 41 | -- |
| 42 | Alexandre Julliard |
| Dimitrie O. Paun | c023254 | 2003-11-26 03:55:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | julliard@winehq.org |
