On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:18 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > WINE, which has legitimate open source purposes. Sorry, some of us pay > > our rent by developing open source that runs on Windows. I'm not going > > to live in my car for the sake of ideological purity. > > Is there a bug that prevents "yum install wine" from pulling in the 32 > bit libraries as needed? That wasn't your question. I was answering your question and countering your underlying assertion that i386 compatibility is ideologically impure and only useful for closed source software. A MinGW cross-compiler toolchain and WINE provide a complete Windows development environment with absolutely no closed source involved, providing tools with which to wean people off closed source software one application at a time. Want another reason? Being able to develop and test i386 builds on my nice fast uber-RAM x86_64 box is incredibly useful. Not all of my machines are x86_64, and i386 is still the dominant architecture overall, so any sane developer HAS to make sure it works. Seriously, Fedora's ease of i386 compatibility is a *major* selling point for us. Go look around at the twisted flakey chroot hacks Debian/Ubuntu have to go through to get what we get with ease.
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