RFC: Adding Mac support to secur32/schannel.c

[Charles Davis]

On 2/3/11 11:46 AM, Henri Verbeet wrote:
> On 3 February 2011 18:58, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>> It shouldn't have hacks, but I don't think it's unreasonable to use
>> platform-specific services for things that don't have widely accepted
>> standards.
>>
> That was mostly in reply to the general idea of only using Apple
> provided libraries for no good reason. In fact, if you bring that to
> its logical conclusion OS X users shouldn't use Wine at all, since
> those are non-Apple libraries as well.
Sounds like what I said came out wrong. I guess what I really want is
not necessarily to totally eliminate external dependencies in Wine but
to minimize them. I'd also like to improve system integration, for which
using system-provided libraries may or may not help.
> The part I'm personally not so convinced of is that this is going to
> benefit Wine in any way. I'm not buying the argument that it's going
> to simplify things much for Wine users on OS X. If someone is capable
> of getting Wine to build and run successfully on OS X, I don't think
> GnuTLS is going to be much of a problem either. I don't have the
> impression most OS X users compile Wine themselves anyway though.
The real problem with external dependencies is that right now, if
someone were to put together a Wine distribution for Mac OS X, they'd
have to go to the trouble of building a number of requisite libraries
(which takes additional time), and of maintaining those libraries along
with Wine itself. It's just additional work, not to mention the security
implications, as Francois Gouget brought up. Judging from the lack of
official Mac binaries, few people are willing to put in that work. (Mike
Krönenberg is apparently willing, but instead of putting his effort into
improving Wine itself, he's decided to make a fancy GUI that the forum
people can't support. More power to him, but I'd like to see official
Wine binaries. And yes, I have thought about doing that myself, and I
know that you're going to say "Then do it" anyway.)

I guess that Henri is right, and this would affect users (except those
who do compile Wine themselves) only indirectly, if it does at all.
Reducing external dependencies would make it easier on package
maintainers, but all users really care about is what they see on the
outside. (That would certainly explain why so many Mac Wine users use
WineBottler.) I must have lost track of that along the way.

I suppose then that what I really want to see in Wine is total system
integration. The end user shouldn't really know or care that he's using
Wine. When he double-clicks on a Windows EXE in the Finder, it should
just work. (IMHO, It should work that way on Linux, too, and elsewhere.)

Chip