On Friday 04 July 2008 23:43:11 James McKenzie wrote:
Comments on Adam's message
Adam Strzelecki wrote:
Hi Emmanuel, hello Wine developers,
Since Wine passed 1.0 (woohoo!) maybe someone from the direction can revise Mac support? Even there're numerous Emmanuel efforts to provide Mac UI driver instead of X11, it will be always pushed aside, and sentenced to death, because it is not in official sources.
Mac OS X support is really not on the radar, from what I can determine. Remember the original goal of Wine was to allow Windows programs to run on a Windows API for Linux and UNIX. Mac OSX switched from a proprietary system to FreeBSD/OpenBSD after the project started. Also add that a parallel project was started to allow Windows32s programs to run on OS/2.
Also, I'm not sure how many wine devs own macintels. I own a mac, but it's a PPC, and I'm not going to spend more money on macs any time soon.
Cheers, Kai