Changelog:
* documentation/faq.sgml
Tweak 'Will there be a Windows version of Wine?':
- Add a pointer to the MinGW project
- Fix the ReactOS case
- Explain the rational behind these porting projects
Index: documentation/faq.sgml
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RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/faq.sgml,v
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+++ documentation/faq.sgml 20 Aug 2003 20:24:25 -0000
@@ -485,19 +575,26 @@
</question>
<answer>
<para>
- Some people are working on getting Wine code to compile on Windows.
+ Some people are working on getting Wine code to compile on Windows
+ using one of the following projects as a basis:
</para>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>
- Cygwin (<ulink url="http:/www.cygwin.com">
- http://www.cygwin.com/</ulink>)
+ Cygwin
+ (<ulink url="http:/www.cygwin.com/">http://www.cygwin.com</>)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ MinGW
+ (<ulink url="http:/www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org</>)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Reactos (<ulink url="http://www.reactos.com/";>
- http://www.reactos.com/</ulink>)
+ ReactOS
+ (<ulink url="http://www.reactos.com/";>http://www.reactos.com</>)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -505,9 +602,21 @@
There's some progress, so a Wine version that's usable on Windows
might be available at some time.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Part of the rational for these projects is to find out areas where
+ Wine portability is lacking. This is especially true of the
+ ReactOS project which is a reimplementation of the Windows kernel
+ and should thus be able to reuse most of Wine dlls.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Another reason for pursuing these projects is to be able to
+ replace a single Windows dll with its Wine counterpart. Besides
+ being a good test for the Wine dll, this lets us detect cases where
+ we made incorrect assumptions about how the dlls interact.
+ </para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
</qandadiv>
<qandadiv id="What-do-I-need-in-order-to-use-Wine">
<title>What do I need in order to use Wine?</title>
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