{"id":293,"date":"2006-02-24T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=293"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:32","slug":"xmetal-later-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"XMetaL, Later Versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">XMetaL<\/span> in Debian is cool. Very cool, even, and I have loads of fun right now. However, I need to point out that the version I installed is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">3.1<\/span>. In other words, Corel&#8217;s first <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">XMetaL<\/span> release. Earlier versions should work, even though I doubt <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1.2<\/span> or <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1.0<\/span> will prove meaningful because of the problems early versions had in general.<\/p>\n<p>Later versions, however,  will give you problems in Wine.  I think <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">XMetaL 4 Author<\/span> could be forced to run, but since Corel struck a deal with Microsoft and integrated the developer parts of the editor with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Visual Studio<\/span>, you&#8217;d better be prepared for a long night. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Visual Studio<\/span> requires a lot of patience, and I won&#8217;t even try to install it since the very idea sort of negates the point with running Linux in the first place. Microsoft, the empire of evil, and all that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, if you decide to go ahead, please post a note about it. Or better yet, email <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blastradius.com\/index.jsp\">Blast Radius<\/a>, the current keeper of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">XMetaL<\/span> flame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running XMetaL in Debian is cool. Very cool, even, and I have loads of fun right now. However, I need to point out that the version I installed is 3.1. In other words, Corel&#8217;s first XMetaL release. Earlier versions should work, even though I doubt 1.2 or 1.0 will prove meaningful because of the problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}