Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 13:36:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu, dkelly@hiwaay.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: WINE (was: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks?) Message-ID: <19980309133636.38119@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199803090227.TAA14706@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 02:27:50AM %2B0000 References: <24443.889409587@time.cdrom.com> <199803090227.TAA14706@usr08.primenet.com>
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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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