RE: [Sheflug] Re: TopPage info for Sheffield Linux User Group

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

I think from the example of Corel Office2000 that making the Win code 
wine-friendly is seen as a quick alternative to native porting. Corel's 
reasons for backing wine development then become obvious. Wine itself is 
still less than perfect, and having an optimised package is dangerously 
close to a major fork in the code. Of course, as a GPL product they are 
perfectly entitled to do this, but what are the consequences for systems 
already running wine ?

A native codebase would of course have to adhere to Unix/Linux standards so 
the sloppy practices of Windows would be avoided (and a new set of sloppy 
Linux practices put in it's place, no doubt), not to mention the 
duplication of effort.

If  Windows-developed  apps are specifically targeted as cross-platform 
along with a stable Wine, then we benefit by the availablity of popular 
packages. However, I don't see it being as good a solution as a native app 
running without another software layer between it and the OS.

On Friday, May 19, 2000 2:12 PM, Al Hudson [SMTP:eah106 [at] york.ac.uk] wrote:
>
> Paul Sims wrote:
> > Just looked at  the page below - this needs an aparrently app-optimised
> > wine to run (downloadable from the same page), so it's not **really** 
for
> > Linux, just wine-compat windows code :(
>
> Not necessarily. Wine does two things: emulates a running Windows system,
> and provides a compatibility layer for native Linux programs to access
> Windows API functions.
>
> > It's becoming depressingly regular that these major s/w announcements
> > conceal this sort of "porting" so we all end up running the same dodgy
> > windows code under quasi-emulation.
>
> I don't see why the linux code would be less dodgy than the windows code
> by the same programmers?
>
> Richard wrote:
> > I had a look myself and it looks like a Red Hat rpm.
>
> It's not - it's compatible with SuSE, Turbolinux, etc...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>

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