Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)

Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)

Posted May 26, 2006 18:18 UTC (Fri) by hansl (subscriber, #5086)
In reply to: Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) by tjc
Parent article: Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)

> In this particular case it was the developers of the original
> application who were porting it to wine, so they had the option
> of changing the application itself to work with (or work around
> the limitations of) wine as necessary.

That's not entirely true, CodeWeavers did the heavy lifting. 225
patches to make Wine more compatible with the Windows API:

http://code.google.com/wine.html

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