On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:45:13AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
Jeremy White wrote:
We've already discussed the concern with the InstallShield related patches of Transgaming; I won't belabor that now. But doesn't it bother anyone else that Marcus spent 5 weeks redoing work that they already had? Wouldn't you rather be able to better play Monkey Island instead?
Wine is a _re_implementation .. 90% of the code we write is double work, triple work sometimes .. It doesn't bother me that we had to rewrite something, since after all that is what we do.. Wouldn't we have it easy is Microsoft would just release their source? The real question is, if Wine was GPL'd would TransGaming have written the DCOM code in the first place?
Someone would have sooner or later (most likely later) due to the immense pressure on getting IShield v6 running.
Ciao, Marcus