development package report and build request

[Kam Leo]

On Mar 31, 2005 11:13 PM, Marius Andreiana <malists at epon.ro> wrote:
> After a few days of struggling with wine-20050310-1fc3winehq, I can
> finally report success! I've added to fedora extras development cvs the
> following packages and I request a build for them:
> 
> - iis 8.2 (Microsoft Internet Information Server)
> I hope it will be included in Fedora Core 5 and by Fedora Core 7 it will
> be the default instead of buggy Apache
> I'm still working on support of ASP.NET (using mono)
> 
> - iexplorer 6.1
> Internet Explorer is the most critical missing piece from a decent
> desktop! This prevents reports I get from my users like 'Linux is slow
> and no multi-tasking, it can only open one window when surfing the net.
> Explorer opens so many so fast!'
> 
> - msibuild 3.0
> This was working since wine-20050105, when MSI support was added, but I
> was waiting for the other packages to really test it. This supports
> building software packages with Microsoft Software Installer instead of
> current rpm. So, rather than current feature-less situation when you
> double click a .rpm file and it installs, and you can know each file on
> what package belongs and it can uninstall cleanly, one can have now
> enterprise-level software installs: double click an .exe file, it
> uncompresses, it runs install, user can press Next several times (gives
> a feeling of interactivity), he can choose to install in /usr,
> in /usr/local or /prgfiles and so on. On uninstall it automatically
> detects what files might be used by other programs, so they can be left
> on the system.
> 
> That's it for now, next I'll work on anti-virus and anti-spyware (FREE
> for personal use!)
> 
> I'm CCing this to fedora-list too, I think this is important news for
> everybody!
> 
> --
> Marius Andreiana
> Epon -- future-proof business applications
> http://www.epon.ro
> 

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