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Dan Kegel wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 3/19/06, Dimi Paun <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dimi@lattica.com"><dimi@lattica.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 09:09 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I tried [mauve on msys on wine] ...
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<pre wrap="">I personally think this is a very exciting thing to get right.
Being able to run an emulation layer like msys/cygwin would
stress the hell out of the fundamental APIs, and would ensure
a solid implementation in Wine. Not to mention that:
-- they are OSS, making debugging a bit easier
-- they have _lots_ of tests that can be run automatically
-- said tests could dramatically enhance and broaden the
available regression tests we have
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Totally. FWIW, the old, minimal snapshot of cygwin in msys
is probably easier to support than the modern cygwin. (See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/mSysFromScratch">http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/mSysFromScratch</a> for
how to build it, if you're interested.)
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<pre wrap="">Adding to this mix stuff like Java can only extend coverage.
And we would be tapping into a huge barrage of tests.
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Yes, it would be an amazing amount of leverage, test-wise.
Having msys working would make a whole new level of
dogfooding possible (e.g. building windows mozilla/firefox
on msys on wine).
- Dan
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Wine for Windows ISVs: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kegel.com/wine/isv">http://kegel.com/wine/isv</a>
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Well, that would be good for dogfooding, but so would getting Dev-C++
to work perfectly on Wine -- it uses MingW/gcc to compile.<br>
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