Re: Why does vb 6 seem to be getting more expensive?
- From: Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:09:57 -0700
On 2009-07-31, Dos-Man 64 <ChairShot@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, "Nobody" <nob...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dos-Man 64" <ChairS...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm going to miss all of the windows software that I wrote. It isn't
practical to think that I can somehow recreate them all on a different
platform. Oh, well. All software must eventually become obsolete. It's
a part of the development cycle.
You could use Wine to run Windows apps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)
I've heard of wine before, but never wanted to invest the time to try
it. Sounds like a pipe dream. I guess I have three questions.
1) How complex is it to download and set up. Seems like linux
programs are always a lot harder to "install." Heck, it can be a
challenge just to figure out which files to download.
You are using the wrong distro then :) For instance, installing wine on my
gentoo linux systems is as simple as:
bob ~ # emerge wine
All of the dependencies are automatically downloaded etc. On Ubuntu, you can
use the little graphical tool. Package management is a lot easier on most
systems now then going out and finding stuff :)
As for complexity... All I can say is sometime :) Seriously, some stuff
works great. Even a bunch of games. There is even a commercial version of
wine optimized specifically for games....
But, in my actual experience - it's pretty hit and miss. I mean some stuff
works great, other stuff ok, and some stuff just not at all. Basically, I
gave up on wine for the most part as a truely serious migration tool.
Your much better off, IMHO, to just find a near equivalent linux app. And
use a linux based development tool or some cross platform language.
I know that this will be controversial, but you realize that it is possible to
write and run apps in C# and VB.NET that can run unmodifed - and not even
recompiled - on linux systems using Mono?
http://www.mono-project.com
So, actaully converting to VB.NET or C# gives you an escape route to Linux :)
There are of course caveats, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on that,
but there are ways to make use of your skills on Linux fairly quickly. And
of course, there is always Java (blech!).
2) What kind of windows apps are we talking about? Stand-alone exes?
Exes that require run-times? Do VB apps present more of a problem for
the emulator than, say, an app written in C or dephi?
I've heard that vb apps run ok. I've had ie6 working on wine before :)
3) Are these apps even worth using given the major differences in the
file systems?
If they are file system tools - then probably not. Wine usually emulates a
windows directory structure under a folder for you - but, it is usually not a
windows type file system under the covers. So, it really depends on what your
tools/apps do...
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Tom Shelton
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