[Wine] Wine on Windows 7

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 08:26:47 CDT 2008


2008/6/3 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> What's the state of Wine on Cygwin?
> I understand this is actually quite difficult, because Cygwin
> exercises Windows quite hard and Wine exercises Cygwin quite hard ...


I see it's largely been abandoned and needs someone development-minded
to bother trying again some time :-)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273
http://www.winehq.org/site/fun_projects
http://www.kerneltraffic.org/wine/wn20021129_146.html#9
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2002-November/011256.html
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2002-November/011671.html
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/11/17/1648220.shtml (the
link there doesn't work)

As Vista (and Windows 7) become worse and worse at supporting old
Windows crapware, this could actually become quite a useful niche for
Wine. If it's feasible!


- d.



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