On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]> wrote: > The package-magician heftig managed to put together a wine-wow64 > package which is currently in AUR and enables users to not only run > 32bit Windows application on x86_64 Arch like bin32-wine but also 64bit > Windows applications. > Basically, it contains a 32bit and 64bit Windows environment to do this, > a lot like native 64bit Windows installations do, in fact. > Great, more windows bloat in the community.
> We'd like to see this package replace bin32-wine in community. It is > currently rather untested and before moving we'd like to ask the Arch > community to test it first. Before we ask for the test though we first > wanted to hear the dear opinions of this mailing list's fine gentlemen. > > Sadly, using it also implies moving a bunch of lib32s and the cross32 > chain into community. This will be a problem for some people. > I hate any kind of lib32-* package and moving more to community will just make me grr. > To summarize: wine-wow64 is like bin32-wine but with the ability to run > 64bit applications. > Aren't windows applications almost all 32bit? I remember reading somewhere that most applications for 64 bit windows are still 32 bit. > -- Sven-Hendrik > It's not you, it's wine-wow64 :P
