On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Aleksey Bragin aleksey@reactos.org wrote:
Is there any real, practical interest in Wine on Windows?
For doing a full port, other than the argument of climbing the mountain because it's there, I doubt it.
I've been making some progress in this direction recently (though I think my approach would be to have a ported, NT-version of wineserver.exe which just uses native functions of the OS instead of emulating them over cygwin, which emulates those features using its own code once again; discussable anyway).
I think as we have discussed before, taking arwinss, or at least the core parts of it and attempting to make an independent subsystem that runs under Windows has value. I believe there is a worthwhile product based upon your work with arwinss using Wine user32/gdi32/x11drv with the rest of the Windows stack to support remotely displaying Win32 applications over X11 to OS X, Solaris and Linux clients.