[Wine] Re: Arguments for Wine on windows/incremental adoption

[oiaohm]

http://www.khronos.org/openkode/ is another path.

People already end up with QT installed and are not aware.  http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use/story/app/qt-in-use/target/desktop

The most important thing here is we take a path that gives developers advantages by making there life simpler as well.

Having to deal one by one with windows oddities is not that nice for developers either.

QT Already exists in usable forms of windows.  Nice bit about having a platform independent api solution.  If MS decides to play hard ball against it you are always free to walk away to another platform.

Of course the platform independant api solution has to be free of future legal problems.  Ie .net does not fit. 

Remember opengl that is already a universal solution performs very well under wine due to pass throughs to native.  Compared to direct x that require emulation.

For games a push to provide an opengl engine would be beneficial to gamers using wine.