Now, if you read that last sentence again, you could easily transpose the term ThinApp for Wine. You could describe Wine as this: software which provides a layer of abstraction between applications and the underling Operating System, resolving required dependencies and enabling greater portability. The result of the collaboration is both Wine and ThinApp improve their quality.įor the uninitiated it is worth explaining what Wine is used for.

The ThinApp engineering team has also set up ‘WineTestBot’, a service which allows Wine developers to run tests on VMware Virtual Machines which run a large selection of Windows versions. A significant number of test fixes made by ThinApp engineering were contributed back to the Wine project, especially targeted at reducing the number of test failures on Windows 7. The one that grabbed me in particular is the section entitled “Quality improvements & Wine test”:Īdditionally the ThinApp engineering team has been working diligently with the Linux Wine team to collaborate on suites of automated test. However if you wander over to the What’s new? article on the VMware ThinApp blog site, there are some additional highlights. Unfortunately most articles I have read just highlighted the “What’s New” section of the Release Notes.

ThinApp 4.5 has just been released in the last couple of days, and many of my fellow bloggers have been picking over the new goodies.

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