Re: Mac OS X/Darwin port of Wine

[Dan Kegel]

Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> I had once a long discussion with a fellow hacker on this subject (going
> into the likes of using Valgrind's virtualization engine to output non-X86
> code to do dynamic translation and so on). We agreed that before starting
> with Wine, one could start with running, for example, Linux/x86 binaries on
> Linux/PPC. That would already validate the fact that you can draw the line
> at one point and from there run such an heterogenous environment.

Hey, that's a good idea.  Then you could install and run
x86 linux packages, if you were really lucky.  Might
be useful for running proprietary packages where they
don't bother to rebuild for linux/ppc.
- Dan