"Bruce Perens writes:" > > From: Ron Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Bruce Perens writes:" > >> I think WINE is a technically superior approach to WABI, and I hope > >> the availability of WABI doesn't impede WINE's progress. > > > Why? Wine's approach is quite similar to Wabi's. > > I'd heard that WABI was usually run with some MS components - in fact > you "installed Windows" into it, although perhaps only to get some desktop > stuff like the file browser. Am I mistaken? WINE comes with its own versions > of the desktop tools.
Wabi 1.x was MS free if I remember. Quite a bit of work went into writing replacements for the program manager, file manager, etc. But here's the way Sun explains their current approach: Q: Why must Microsoft Windows be installed with Wabi 2.x? A: SunSoft requires users to install Microsoft Windows with Wabi 2.x to ensure that all of the certified applications will execute properly in the Wabi environment. Some of the applications certified to run under Wabi require the presence of certain Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) that no longer ship with the applications themselves. Instead, such applications rely on DLLs provided by Microsoft Windows. To meet our customer requirements, SunSoft has chosen to invest its engineering resources in improving performance and creating new functionality for Wabi rather than replicating all of the DLLs in MS Windows. This decision has enabled the Wabi development team to concentrate on delivering a high quality product and will permit ongoing development to focus on new features and enhancements. Please note that although the applets (accessory programs) that ship with Microsoft Windows will run under Wabi, the presence of MS Windows does not otherwise affect the number of applications that are able to run under Wabi. The difficulty in cloning OLE 2.0 was one of the main reasons for now requiring MS Windows. Ron -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
