> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Pfeifer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:39 AM
> To: Francois Gouget
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Is wine portable?
>
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > The target of Wine is the regular Linux user who still needs a few
> > Windows applications.
>
> s#Linux user#user of Linux, FreeBSD, or some other Unix-like OS#
[Glunz Wolfgang]
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be reality - at least not for the moment.
Recently I tried to compile winlib under Sparc-Solaris and was blocked
by the usage of x86 specific ASM code in several source modules.
Further, I just needed some parts from the EMF device but it seems
so that I have to compile all, because the strong coherence - but this
is another issue. This is a design issue - should the lib use it's own
APIs as much as possible or should the lib call the native OS functions
directly if appropriate? I see pros and cons for both ways.
One pro - as mentioned - would be the less tighter coupling and thus
it would raise the probability that one can pick a piece without need to
compile
(and port - see above) _all_ the rest.
Wolfgang
> (I agree with the rest, but -- while using Linux by myself (among others)
> -- I try to reduce Linuxisms...)
>
> Gerald
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> Gerald "Jerry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/
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