From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-08-10T23:36:04+09:00
Subject: Re: wine and win32ole

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Daniel Amelang wrote:

> 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 ended up going this route for testing.  in installed cxoffice, the ruby one
click installer, and then ms-office and the xls2csv code (posted in that
thread) is working.  pretty neat.

have you been making heavy use of such a system in any sort of production
environment?  it's a nice approach to be able to do windows doccument
conversion on a *nix box - but i wonder about robustness.  any issue of
concern is security, but i guess you at least have the standard unix
mechanisms to protect you there - like not being able to write into system
space, for example.  any thoughts on that?

thanks for the pointers.

-a
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