From: Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...>
Date: 2005-08-09T07:25:49+09:00
Subject: Re: wine and win32ole

> > 1) I installed wine (via codeweavers installer)
> 
> i compiled from the latest wine source - and reason to prefer your appoach?

I'm lazy :p
Codeweavers makes managing your wine install a no-brainer, and
installing new apps is just too easy. I already get the latest
crossover installers for free since I help support one of their apps.
And their install includes all sorts of stuff you might otherwise need
to track down and install yourself (in addition to the wine core),
especially when it comes to running MS Office apps.

I'm no wine guru, but I'm pretty sure that you can get the one-click
installer working just fine without crossover, but MS Excel might be
harder without the codeweavers tricks. It's only a one time $30 if you
prefer the easy route, though. It's saved me a lot of time over the
past couple years. (end of codeweavers plug :)

> basically i'm trying to setup an environment to do
> windows filetype conversions on a bsd server.  this sounds like a good
> approach.  i'll ping the list if i successfully convert an excel doc this way.

Yah, I've been reading your other posts. I really think this approach
is going to be the easiest, considering the alternatives I've heard
you propose.

> many thanks!

No problem! Thank you for all that _you've_ contributed to the ruby community.

Dan