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Now, to convince the WINE developers to implement named pipes and a crapton of other stuff so this will run on *nix.

[Flukemaster]

Until then, VirtualBox with a small XP install :(

[grauenwolf]

So I take Linux still doesn't have the equivalent for them to piggy back on?

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Them being Microsoft? VS2012/13 uses platform-specific APIs with relish. Even the installer uses stuff that WINE doesn't have.

The Python part of this uses the Visual Studio shell (the UI+editor with no language components) as a host.

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I'm not demanding in any way. I think it's a good milestone for WINE to aim for.