We can have the BOINC client detect the presence of wine/wine64
and report it to the scheduler,
then use the plan class mechanism to decide what version to use.

What's the best way to detect wine?

-- David

On 10-May-2012 9:46 AM, Eric J Korpela wrote:
> I'm thinking about the possibility of adding client support wine/wine64 on
> i686 and x86_64 platforms.  But the current platform choice mechanism
> causes problems.
>
> The easiest, and probably safest is to add "i686-wine" and "x86_64-wine" as
> alternate platforms.  That means projects would need to deliberately make
> their windows apps into wine apps.  But it means that people running wine
> don't have the option of trying to join projects that don't do so.
>
> The more dangerous road would be to have machines with wine report
> "windows_x86_64" or "windows_i686" as platforms.  The problem with that
> would be that on projects that have linux32, linux64, window32, and
> windows64 applications, an x86_64-linux host with wine installed would get
> all four applications, until the scheduler determined which one was
> fastest.  Maybe that would be a good thing.  Maybe the windows32 app is the
> fastest.  The other problem would be for apps that don't work on wine.
> S@Hruns fine, but maybe apps that require window7 wouldn't.
>
> Thoughts?
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