Wine and OS X

[Obchod id]

Hi,

There could be at least mention in FAQ about possible OS x version or
whether there is no plan.

Best wishes

Frantisek

[Segin]

Obchod id wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There could be at least mention in FAQ about possible OS x version or
> whether there is no plan.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Frantisek

It already exists, but only for Intel Macs (The name 'Wine' is a 
recursive emulator for Wine Is Not a Emulator, from the fact it doesn't 
emulate a CPU. Therefore you cannot run x86 Windows programs on a 
PowerPC Macintosh.)

OSx86 Wiki entry:
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Darwine

Darwine project page:
http://darwine.opendarwin.org/

[Jim White]

Segin wrote:
> Obchod id wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There could be at least mention in FAQ about possible OS x version or
> > whether there is no plan.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Frantisek
>
> It already exists, but only for Intel Macs (The name 'Wine' is a 
> recursive emulator for Wine Is Not a Emulator, from the fact it doesn't 
> emulate a CPU. Therefore you cannot run x86 Windows programs on a 
> PowerPC Macintosh.)
>
> OSx86 Wiki entry:
> http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Darwine
>
> Darwine project page:
> http://darwine.opendarwin.org/

What Obchod said is that the information about Wine on OS X is not 
readily apparent in the FAQ.  While being obscure during the days of 
PowerPC-only OS X, the question now of "What about Wine on OS X?" has 
become quite frequent in the Intel-era and will become more so.

While a download of Wine for Intel OS X is probably still a month or two 
away, updating the FAQ and making a link to it from the Downloads page 
would be the user-friendly thing to do (particularly since there is 
bound to be a flood of inquiries when CodeWeavers makes their CrossOver 
Office release).

Jim White

[Segin]

Jim White wrote:
> Segin wrote:
> > Obchod id wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > There could be at least mention in FAQ about possible OS x version or
> > > whether there is no plan.
> > >
> > > Best wishes
> > >
> > > Frantisek
> >
> > It already exists, but only for Intel Macs (The name 'Wine' is a 
> > recursive emulator for Wine Is Not a Emulator, from the fact it 
> > doesn't emulate a CPU. Therefore you cannot run x86 Windows programs 
> > on a PowerPC Macintosh.)
> >
> > OSx86 Wiki entry:
> > http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Darwine
> >
> > Darwine project page:
> > http://darwine.opendarwin.org/
>
> What Obchod said is that the information about Wine on OS X is not 
> readily apparent in the FAQ.  While being obscure during the days of 
> PowerPC-only OS X, the question now of "What about Wine on OS X?" has 
> become quite frequent in the Intel-era and will become more so.
>
> While a download of Wine for Intel OS X is probably still a month or 
> two away, updating the FAQ and making a link to it from the Downloads 
> page would be the user-friendly thing to do (particularly since there 
> is bound to be a flood of inquiries when CodeWeavers makes their 
> CrossOver Office release).
>
> Jim White

If you check that wiki page, there is a .dmg for a i386 build.

[Jim White]

Segin wrote:
> Jim White wrote:
> > Segin wrote:
> > > Obchod id wrote:
> > > > There could be at least mention in FAQ about possible OS x version or
> > > > whether there is no plan.
> > >
> > > ...
> > > OSx86 Wiki entry:
> > > http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Darwine
> > >
> > > Darwine project page:
> > > http://darwine.opendarwin.org/
> >
> > ...
>
> If you check that wiki page, there is a .dmg for a i386 build.

Cool.

Hopefully Wine will soon have a volunteer to be the maintainer, and the 
Downloads and FAQ pages will be updated.  Even without a maintainer, 
those pages could be updated with this information.

For those who may not be clear, Darwine is not a fork of Wine, but a 
Wine developer forum focused on OS X (and Darwin) specific issues.  And 
yes, while I'm harping on FAQ updating, I'm aware that needs to be done 
on Darwine's site too.

Jim White