<quote who="Roger Barnes">

> > "...DiBona answered in the negative, explaining that Google Earth relied
> > on Qt and GL libraries and code, so additional WINE support would not
> > help."
> 
> I took that to mean that they might "port" it using wine, but without
> doing additional work on wine itself?

No, it means that Wine won't help with the port. Google Earth (in Google's
hands via an acquisition - they didn't run the project from the start), is
built on Qt and a bunch of custom GL stuff. So while Qt runs on Linux (of
course), there's a stack of other code they have to port, little of which
Wine will help with.

- Jeff

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