Support Pettition to incourage Marco to port to Linux

This would be nice, but, everyone should remember that supporting the effort to create the Unix version will impact development/maintenance of the Windows version - both for the initial version and all subsequent versions (coordinating release of 2 versions of the code).

Or, maybe, the price goes up so that a Unix developer or two can be hired.
 
Has anyone tried running this under Wine? I just read a blog of a guy who was able to get an older version (8.x) to run on OSX using CrossOver (which is basically Wine with some user-friendliness added on).
 
Was just wondering if anyone had tried it with a more recent version. I imagine Wine has come a long way since PLSQL Developer v7; I might give it a shot on my MacBook this evening.
 
It seems like such a good idea at first thought but I'm a no vote. First, on our linux installations we don't have GUIs. What Oracle shop would have no Windows? Any?
 
None, I would think. Even though I'm not terribly fond of it, I would have a hard time classifying Windows as a "dying platform," either.
 
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I have briefly tested the new version 11 during the beta phase under Wine and it works quite well. The only glitch I have seen is about the help system.
But of course this was no thorough testing so there could be many other problems.
(Wine version 1.7.36 on Opensuse 13.2)
 
You might test the reports and macros in Wine. Those were the main things not working for me when I tried about 5 years ago.
 
Using wine is sometimes not a solution. Using Oracle Linux 7.0 (or redhat) wine is NOT possible for 32 bit applications, just 64 bit! So you have to use Oracle Linux 6.6 as last release!
Best regards
Joachim
 
Got it running on OS X Yosemite in under an hour; first time I've really had a chance lately to play around. I'll play around with it a bit more in-depth in the next few weeks.

Using Oracle XE 11.2.0.2.0 running on a 64-bit CentOS Dell blade and port-forwarding 1521 to OS X over SSH.

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if wine is not a solution then you can use either VirtualBox's Seamless Mode or VMware's Unity Mode.

I don't think that it's worse to spend time porting PSD to xNIXes, PSD is classic Delphi VCL application, and there is no option to get VCL working elsewhere than Windows.
Porting using Firemonkey is not an option - the libraries are incompatible, also Firemonkey is not native for all the platforms (some bugs + fuzzy look & feel guaranteed).

It will be much better to spend some time porting PSD to x64 mode (VCL supports Win64), for some cases it would be much useful (like selecting huge workset for further export to Excel/HTML/CSV, etc).
 
Hi Guys. I have just downloaded the free trial and I am battling to recover my files... When I try to log on it say
Initialization error
Oracle Client not properly installed
OracleHomeKey:
OracleHomeDir:
 
@geekmuse, that's awesome :)

I've got Oracle 12c running on Windows 8.1 in a Parallels VM, but the screen resolution messes up PL/SQL Developer (Retina MBP/3840x2160 external monitor). Maybe we need a petition for a 64-bit port.

 
Been using PL/SQL Dev since the early 2000s.
I'm mainly a linux user, and for several years ran under wine reasonably happily, but after a while of battling with glitches I conceded and decided to change my suffering to windows running in a VM instead.

Would love to see a full linux port, but I won't be holding my breath.
 
Hello,

I am successfully running PL/SQL Developer in Wine in Ubuntu 16.04. Almost everything works, there are only a few GUI glitches.

Wine version 1.6.2, PL/SQL developer 11.0.6.1776, Oracle instant client 11.1.
 
I am successfully running PL/SQL Developer in Wine in Ubuntu 16.04. Almost everything works, there are only a few GUI glitches.

Wine version 1.6.2, PL/SQL developer 11.0.6.1776, Oracle instant client 11.1.
 
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