Will wine get to 1.0 before the win32 APIs are obsolete?

[Jakob Eriksson]

Mike Hearn wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:05, Jakob Eriksson wrote:
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>><little tale>
>>The other week I received a little program from a friend.  I tried to 
>>run it in Wine.
>>It didn't work at all.  It was a dotNET - compiled EXE.
>></little tale>
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>What error did you get from Wine? We should patch it to inform users
>that this is the case, and that they can use Mono to try and run it.
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wine aaa.exe
err:module:import_dll Module (file) mscoree.dll (which is needed
by F:\tmp\aaa.exe) not found
err:process:start_process Main exe initialization failed


>At some point of course we're going to have to go the whole way and
>ully integrate Wine and Mono.
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>>Today, there are over 76,000 Win32 APIs, and countless wrappers. With
>>Longhorn, Microsoft hopes to reduce the API set to 8,000 to 10,000.
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>76,000! Man, that's a lot of code. I wonder how many we actually
>implement (correctly)?
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We will know more about that once the regression tests increase
in number and quality.

regards,
Jakob