Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:52:11 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: WINE (was: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks?) Message-ID: <00a801bd4b20$32c8d0a0$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>
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regarding winse.. not enought volenteers, not enough documentation on how to code for it... -Alfred -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>; Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>; perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>; dkelly@hiwaay.net <dkelly@hiwaay.net>; hackers@FreeBSD.ORG <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Sunday, March 08, 1998 6:08 PM Subject: WINE (was: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks?) >On Mon, 9 March 1998 at 2:27:50 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> Wine has always required more than a "little push", it's required a >>> Saturn rocket up the ass. When compared to real solutions like SoftPC >>> from Insignia solutions, it's not even close to being sufficient for >>> the intended purpose (running popular Win95 binaries, in case people >>> forgot) and I doubt that it ever will be. >> >> I agree with Jordan on this one. Even quadrupling my time estimates, >> I come out with under 3 years for a small 5 man team to make a WIN32 >> capable of running MicroSoft Office. The 5 coders would have to be >> *serious* about getting the job done. The WINE project, though well >> intentioned, just doesn't seem very serious to me. 8-(. > >OK. This agrees with what I've seen. Maybe they're just not the >world's best hackers. Is anybody interested in doing better? What >are the real problems with doing it right? It seems to me that the >most difficult one is getting documentation, but even a big API is >still finite. Comments? > >Greg > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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