Read comments inline, <br> <br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/2/23, Alan McKinnon <<a href="mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com">alan.mckinnon@gmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Friday 22 February 2008, Volodymyr Shcherbyna wrote:<br> > Hello Tres,<br> ><br> > Yes, agree, there might be Linux equivalents to accomplish the same<br> > tasks. But let me pickup the description of winehq from official<br>
> web-site : "[...] a compatibility layer for running Windows programs<br> > [...]". Doesn't that mean, that *all* software should work?<br> <br> <br>NO.<br> <br> It means that applications that users can reasonably expect to run<br>
should be able to run. Note that it is applications that Wine targets.</blockquote><div><br>The description is quite non-precise. Who defines the policy of what should be run and what shouldn't? What I am trying to explain, is that, once something is designed to be compatible with Windows API, it should be compatible with at any case at any layers.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> For example, there is no sane reason in the world that VC++ should<br> always work under Wine, considering the deep knowledge of Windows that<br>
is built into VC++. If you are developing a Windows app, then you<br> should compile it on ... Windows. And Wine runs atop a *nix system, so<br> it has no need to implement any NTFS-specific code as it does not need<br> to use NTFS as a storage layer. Should you need to manipulate NTFS for<br>
some reason, we have ntfs-ng for that job.</blockquote><div><br>I don't care about file systems. What I would like to see in wine, is a little more abstractionist things, for example, file system filters support. NDIS IM filters, TDI providers, WFP, Kernel sockets and other things.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> There has to be a point where Wine stops and the correct answer to<br> anything more is "You should use Windows for that". I believe that line<br>
lies just beyond user-space apps.</blockquote><div><br>Any other ideas on this issue? <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--<br> Alan McKinnon<br> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com<br> <br> <br> </blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>with best regards,<br>Volodymyr