ChangeSet ID: 22803 CVSROOT: /opt/cvs-commit Module name: lostwages Changes by: jnewman@winehq.org 2006/02/06 10:40:54
Modified files: templates/en : myths.template
Log message: Juan Lang juan_lang@yahoo.com Win32 has been the default for Wine for years, so say so
Patch: http://cvs.winehq.org/patch.py?id=22803
Old revision New revision Changes Path 1.12 1.13 +15 -18 lostwages/templates/en/myths.template
Index: lostwages/templates/en/myths.template diff -u -p lostwages/templates/en/myths.template:1.12 lostwages/templates/en/myths.template:1.13 --- lostwages/templates/en/myths.template:1.12 6 Feb 2006 16:40:54 -0000 +++ lostwages/templates/en/myths.template 6 Feb 2006 16:40:54 -0000 @@ -163,24 +163,21 @@ although Windows NT (and thus the Win32 supported Windows 3.1 applications. Anyway, almost no-one used Windows NT in that time anyway. <p> -But these days are long gone. The Windows 3.1 support may still be more -complete than that of the Win32 API but most of the development nowadays -happens for the Win32 API. Furthermore I should point out two more -things. First, it seems people complaining about Wine supporting only -Windows 3.1 usually do not realize that Wine also includes some support -for the DOS API. That's because a non negligible percentage of Windows -3.1 and even Windows 9x applications still make calls to the DOS -interrupts! Second, Winelib only supports the Win32 API. The Win16 header -files (necessary for compiling a Win16 application) have been moved out -of the way to simplify development. So in some way the Win32 API is -better supported than the Win16 one. -<p> -So currently Wine does not support the Win64 API at all. But the Wine -team does take Win64 into account when making architectural decisions. -In fact we'll probably see history repeating itself: the Win64 API has -not been released in a commercial product yet, so no-one is using it -anyway. So I can predict that when it becomes widespread we'll see Wine -developers starting to work on supporting it. +But these days are long gone. Since August 2005, Wine advertises its version +as Windows 2000, and for several years before this it was Windows 98, so really +Win32 is the primary thing Wine supports. Support for Windows 3.1 applications +is still around, of course, as is some support for DOS applications. +<p> +Win64 support would allow Wine to run native Windows 64-bit executables, and +as of February 2006, Wine does not yet have this support. That's okay, since +there are very few commercially available Win64 applications. One exception, +Unreal Tournament 2004, is available in a native Linux 64-bit version, so +nobody (except maybe a Wine hacker) should want to run the Windows version +anyway. +<p> +This doesn't mean that Wine will not work on 64-bit systems. It does. See +<a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit">this entry</a> in the +<a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/">Wine Wiki</a> for more info.
<a name="only_linux"></a> <h2>Myth 9: "Wine is for Linux only"</h2>