What's the history of Wine?
Hmm. I actually started on something like this. Google's groups are a great way to find info.
Some of the stuff I started on was the very early years - 1993 - 1995. I'm sure Marcus or Alexandre could fill in the blanks after that.
As far as Bob goes, there was a posting back in '96 or '98 about his involvement with TWIN.
Weird fact of the day: Miguel de Icaza was cited as an early contributor to Wine.
-Brian Vincent vinn@theshell.com
As far as the very beginning, it started from a discussion on USENET. Some people said it couldn't be done which inspired me to begin writing a loader. Another person (unfortunately I don't remember who) started to do the same thing at the same time. I don't remember the details, but my work became the base system that everyone adopted. Eric Youngdale contributed a substantial amount of code in the early days. Someone else took the lead on developing the windowing code. I don't remember who. Was that you, Alexandre or did you join in after that?
As far as Bob goes, there was a posting back in '96 or '98 about his involvement with TWIN.
Yes, about the time Alexandre took over maintaining the Wine releases, I took a contract position working for Rob Farnum doing TWIN development. I continued working for Rob until Willows Software was bought out by Award Software.
Weird fact of the day: Miguel de Icaza was cited as an early contributor to Wine.
Yes, he was. I personally remember accepting patches from him.
----- Bob Amstadt http://www.amstadt.com/~bob bob@amstadt.com
Robert Amstadt bob@amscons.com writes:
As far as the very beginning, it started from a discussion on USENET. Some people said it couldn't be done which inspired me to begin writing a loader. Another person (unfortunately I don't remember who) started to do the same thing at the same time. I don't remember the details, but my work became the base system that everyone adopted. Eric Youngdale contributed a substantial amount of code in the early days. Someone else took the lead on developing the windowing code. I don't remember who. Was that you, Alexandre or did you join in after that?
Yes that was me. I remember the first patch I did was a hack to tie together the loader you had written with the tcl/tk menu stuff written by Peter MacDonald so that the menudemo program worked. After that I set out to implement GDI to replace tcl/tk...
Nice to see you around again!
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