On Sunday, 19 May 2013 1:55 AM, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
On 16/05/13 13:04, Hugh McMaster wrote: 3. wineconsole with --backend=curses, but no X server running
My concern is with scenario (3). Wine is designed to be used with an X server, but wineconsole can be used in non-X-based environment. While this is possible, it would seem unlikely. Nonetheless, the issue has come up on the wine-devel list before.
The question is, should I worry about supporting such a scenario?
wine works really well with windows-only embedded compilers. With wine as it is, you can just shove them in a Makefile like any other tool. Magic!
This is an very useful use-case, and definitely important to preserve console support in X-less environments for this.
Thank you for your response. As you may have seen, there's been quite a lot of support for using wineconsole in an X-less environment.
So don't worry, nothing will change. In fact, I've come up with a way to keep this functionality amongst a lot of other changes to wineconsole in an GUI-based environment.