Re: Wine compatibility

2011-03-28 Thread Scott Ritchie
On 03/23/2011 11:02 AM, Juan Lang wrote: >> What I meant as 'clean start' is that they could drop all hacks in 64bit >> environment. I wonder if that happened. > > Speculating whether MS would have done this is probably not a very > useful exercise. Still, I'd say it's exceedingly improbable: > 1

Re: Wine compatibility

2011-03-23 Thread Juan Lang
> What I meant as 'clean start' is that they could drop all hacks in 64bit > environment. I wonder if that happened. Speculating whether MS would have done this is probably not a very useful exercise. Still, I'd say it's exceedingly improbable: 1. The cost of reviewing all the code for what might

Re: Wine compatibility

2011-03-23 Thread Austin English
2011/3/23 Adam Kłobukowski : > On 23.03.2011 16:01, James McKenzie wrote: >> >> On 3/23/11, Adam Kłobukowski  wrote: >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> I have a question for Wine developers, not 100% related to development, >>> so: please excuse me for wasting your time. >>> >>> Officially sated, Wine wants to

Re: Wine compatibility

2011-03-23 Thread Adam Kłobukowski
On 23.03.2011 16:01, James McKenzie wrote: On 3/23/11, Adam Kłobukowski wrote: Hello I have a question for Wine developers, not 100% related to development, so: please excuse me for wasting your time. Officially sated, Wine wants to be 'bug-by-bug' implementation of Windows APIs. On the other

Re: Wine compatibility

2011-03-23 Thread James McKenzie
On 3/23/11, Adam Kłobukowski wrote: > Hello > > I have a question for Wine developers, not 100% related to development, > so: please excuse me for wasting your time. > > Officially sated, Wine wants to be 'bug-by-bug' implementation of > Windows APIs. On the other hand, it is known that all (?) ve

Re: Wine compatibility

2011-03-23 Thread Juan Lang
> Is there a solution for this? Sure: black-box reverse engineer how MS is detecting the apps and enabling the hacks, create test cases showing that they exist, and implement them ourselves. --Juan

Wine compatibility

2011-03-23 Thread Adam Kłobukowski
Hello I have a question for Wine developers, not 100% related to development, so: please excuse me for wasting your time. Officially sated, Wine wants to be 'bug-by-bug' implementation of Windows APIs. On the other hand, it is known that all (?) version of Windows contain 'hacks' to make imp

Wine compatibility sponsoring

2005-07-28 Thread Christian Siegert
Hi *, although I am not quite sure if this is the right list for my question, I will try it anyway as I did not find a better list (e.g. jobs)... Being a software development company with limited wine know-how, we are would like to request if there is any interest at any of the developers a