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From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>
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Subject: Re: WINE (was: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks?)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:52:11 -0500
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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>;
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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
>
>


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