On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> As for Winelib, it's going to be a pain to have to lug around
> winelib to non-x86 machines for the sole purpose of running one
> or two apps. It's just a bit too big to lug around. Plus, for many
> (most) Windows apps, the source isn't available ;-)
But the target user of Winelib is different from the target user of
Wine.
The target of Wine is the regular Linux user who still needs a few
Windows applications. Presumably he cannot expect cooperation from the
companies editing that software.
The target of Winelib is the developper who, having developped a nice
application for Windows, now wants to make it available on, say, Mac OS
X.
But when I say developper, I could just as well say 'company',
especially for the Windows market.
So, of course, your average Linux/Mac OS X user is not going to beg
for the sources of, say, WordPerfect 2000, and then port Wine and
WordPerfect himself to Mac OS X. Rather it would be the company owning
the product that would want the port to happen. And then if the product
is not a trivial piece of software, they'll be happy to be able to reuse
Winelib on the Mac OS X so that they don't have to restart from scratch.
Furthermore Winelib only has to be ported once. Once the changes are
back into the Wine codebase the company only has to deal with the
portability issues of its own code. Which can already represent a fair
amount of work.
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Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/
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