WordPress scanning no longer works on Ubuntu with Wine

[deckerweb]

After a regular update of Wine, I can no longer scan with the WordPress feature.
I had 1.6.9 Pro installed on Ubuntu 14.04 with Wine (1.7) and scanning gave crash of the app. Update on latest stable 1.6.10 didn't changed this. Also new 1.7 beta 2 - the same behavior, even just crashed after clicking the WordPress scan button. With 1.6.9/10 at least, it started scanning for a bit...

It may have nothing to do with Poedit and it may be the Wine on Ubuntu, still I am upset I currently cannot use the app on my maschine(s).

Really sad, that we don't have an official Linux version of the pro version (.deb package etc.).

[vslavik]

You say it yourself: the thing that changed was Wine, not Poedit — it’s near certain that was the cause. In any case, I’m not sure what you want me to do :( I can’t support running Poedit under Wine (nobody does, for very good reasons as best evidenced by this ticket). There’s not even any actionable information in there — I just can’t do anything about this. The best I can do is to recommend that you use some serious solution: VirtualBox if you must or VMware Workstation if you want something good. I used Workstation for years to run Windows on a Linux desktop and can’t recommend it enough.

Really sad, that we don't have an official Linux version of the pro version (.deb package etc.).

Let me be blunt: it would make zero economic sense. I hoped to be able to use Ubuntu Software Center to do it, but its tooling and functionality is just incredibly horrible; in practice, I’d have to bypass it and do the builds myself, host the repo (can’t use PPAs for this), explain the nontrivial setup to users. That’s lot of work and investment and so is fixing all the Ubuntu-specific breakages of GTK+ (due to Unity) and supporting all that. That would all be manageable, but the biggest problem is that, quite simply, (nearly) nobody buys software on Linux (and yes, I do know from my own experience, and it’s a pity, because I’d prefer to support all platforms, but that’s how it seems to be).

[vslavik]

Just received the automated crash report from you — thanks for submitting it! It shows a crash in the standard library where it couldn’t really fail, with a totally unusual, never-seen-by-me-before error code EXCEPTION_UNKNOWN_0x80000100 — that’s not a crash, that’s something Truly Weird™ that couldn’t come from Poedit itself and unlikely to be from the Windows kernel either. There is, however, ample evidence that it is a Wine-specific thing that Ubuntu+Wine users are complaining about in different, unrelated contexts.

[deckerweb]

I know all of the above you wrote, and it is in NO way against you or your software! Rather, I agree with every word and comma above... :-)

Just reported this to show how sometimes we as Linux users get "punished" just for nothing. I want to use your awesome Open Source software on an Open Source OS, only, it is not working. I am losing time where should have been working to solve problem for paying clients etc.

It's totally frustrating!
You want to sell a pro add-on for your Open Source app and just not able to do so because the "Software Center" of the Open Source OS sucks big time!
And people like me, exactly for things like laid out above, are "forced" more and more to use proprietary software on non-open source OS etc.

I don't want to buy a Mac with Mac OS X, I rather want to use Ubuntu, however, I consider to buy a Mac soon only because I want to WORK productive on my stuff I need for clients etc. and not constantly tweak things in the OS or apps.

Again, it's a frustrating situation for both of us. And things like these maybe are the reasons so few people actually use Linux or SELL apps for it. Really, it's a shame!