Re: When will Wine integrate an x86 CPU emulator?

2003-08-22 Thread Jim White
Lionel Ulmer wrote: Anyhow, I realize that the Wine-devel list isn't the most hospitable place for these sorts of ideas. That's why I set up http://darwine.sf.net. Well, I looked at the site and did not see much there... Is there any design diocuments / roadmaps on how you plan to go forward

Re: When will Wine integrate an x86 CPU emulator?

2003-08-21 Thread Jim White
Francois Gouget wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Ulrich Weigand wrote: [...] The only reason for wanting to integrate an emulator into Wine is that this would allow to run the Wine components natively, and only switch to the emulator for executing Windows binaries. [...] Not only it would be extremely

Re: When will Wine integrate an x86 CPU emulator?

2003-08-20 Thread Jim White
Kelly Leahy wrote: Not sure I agree with paragraph two of the answer... ... I don't care for the answer much myself. Certainly never is not reasonable as Wine for non-x86 systems is desireable and eventually enough effort will be expended to get the job done. Now the time frame might be

Re: Mac OS X/Darwin port of Wine

2003-01-08 Thread Jim White
Mike Hearn wrote: I'm suggesting you use it as a place to start the port. If you decide to make things hard for yourself due to some bizarre hatred of desktop Linux, then you're just increasing the amount of work you'd need to do. You don't even have to dual boot or anything, just stick it on an

Re: Mac OS X/Darwin port of Wine

2003-01-07 Thread Jim White
Mike Hearn wrote: Do you have any references for those statistics? The figures came from this: ... You're mixing installed base numbers with new shipments (market share). Worthwile to note in this vein is Apple released their version of the XFree86 X11 server (rootless for Aqua) beta for

Re: Mac OS X/Darwin port of Wine

2003-01-06 Thread Jim White
Mike Hearn wrote: Supposedly Mac OS X already has the largest installed base of any single *nix distribution... Actually, according to figures from Apple and IDC (guess which is more neutral) desktop Linux has at least double and possibly quadruple the installed userbase of MacOS

Mac OS X/Darwin port of Wine

2003-01-04 Thread Jim White
Hi Gang. A few weeks ago when I thought how cool it would be to marry Wine and Bochs to run Windows progams on Mac OS X Darwin, I checked around, including this list, and didn't find any activity. So I opened a SourceForge project to focus on just that goal: http://darwine.sf.net After I

Re: Mac OS X/Darwin port of Wine

2003-01-04 Thread Jim White
Dan Kegel wrote: Lionel Ulmer wrote: We agreed that before starting with Wine, one could start with running, for example, Linux/x86 binaries on Linux/PPC. That would already validate the fact that you can draw the line at one point and from there run such an heterogenous environment. Hey,

Re: Mac OS X/Darwin port of Wine

2003-01-04 Thread Jim White
Brian Vincent wrote: This issue comes up a few times a year (isn't it in a FAQ somewhere?) Anyway, take a look at these threads: Yes it is a bit of a FAQ, and the answers have mostly been along the lines of just use Winelib for non-Intel machines. Now it can be ... and checkout the Darwine