Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
If I understand your question correctly, the big difference that I see is that .Net EXE's and DLLs (assemblies) run on any platform. AFAIK, windows .DLLs and .EXEs will only run on wine on x86.On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:If you can show a demo of compiling certain open source windows apps so that they can work on Fedora via wine, then I can definitely argue that this is no longer secondary architecture. I have a couple of VJ programs some friends asked about getting into Fedora, all open source, but some run on windows. Being able to build them on Fedora easily will make it very easy for them to create a Fedora based VJ station.I will fight you tooth and nail on this. It might even come down to a Dance Dance Revolution Dance off. If we can distribute it under the Fedora brand, we must have a version that runs natively before we consider a windows cross-compiled binary that runs under wine. I personally draw the line there. Native first, emulated second. If native doesnt work, get it fixed, or its not going to be part of Fedora.Frets on Fire. Seriously, we might as well write the program over from scratch, cannabalizing the algorithms from it as we go along. Doing that would probably mean making a free-codec and nonfree-codec version too. Currently, it's supported by searching in all the usual windows places to see if codecs are installed. Now that wine is 1.0, I think it really deserves the same pariah status that Mono should get. It's an API controlled by a single corporation that is not 100% documented, complex, and been reimplemented from the inside out. Where do we draw the line between Mono compiling EXEs and DLLs that work under .Net on Windows and a cross compiler compiling EXEs and DLLs that work on windows without .Net? If you really want to make this argument, why don't we draw the line at Mono?.
-Toshio
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