On Friday 16 December 2005 15:41, Peter Beutner wrote:
The point is that it won't be integrated in neither kernel or glibc.
Integration in the loader is just one possibility. Wine needs to load code at fixed positions. Thus, there has to be a possibility to do it. Currently we do it in a way that some people consider a hack. If this is a problem (and I'm not saying that it actually is), we would have to fix it. This means we would have to illustrate our problem to the guys doing the randomization stuff. Wine is important to many people, so I think they would give us an open ear and we could fix the issues together.
Don't get me wrong I still think it is perfectly valid that wine is doing that sort of hack to get existing windows applications working but you really shouldn't advertise it as a solution to platform independence and encourage developers to go this way.
If someone plans to do a new multi-platform project, I'm pretty sure no one in their right mind would suggest wine to do it. But there is a whole lot of legacy applications for which the only economically feasible way to port them to linux might be via wine.
Bye,