Wine lecture slides

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hi all,

The updated slides for the lecture I'll be giving on Sunday are at 
http://www.shemesh.biz/wine/slides.pdf. I tried to incorporate all of 
the feedback from you guys. I would, still, appretiate any further 
feedback you may wish to give.

I also have specific questions, if anyone knows the answers:
- What is the current status of "--with-nptl" on RH9? Is it positively 
necessary to include that when running ./configure? I know it's not 
necessary when running wineinstall.
- Can someone please verify my knowledge of Corel's wine history

Hmm, that list turned out shorter

Corel-wine:
As far as I could discern from the good ol' web, Corel started it's Wine 
initiative in 1999 as an alternative to actually porting WordPerfect and 
friends to Linux. They created a branch called "Corel-wine", which was 
also open source (wine was X11 at the time, so they did have the 
choice). At some point, corel-wine died. Why did it die? When did that 
happen?

Shachar

[Mike Hearn]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 14:02, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> - What is the current status of "--with-nptl" on RH9? Is it positively
>
> necessary to include that when running ./configure? I know it's not 
> necessary when running wineinstall.

--with-nptl is no longer required and has been removed, at least, it
doesn't appear in my CVS/mainline copy. NPTL is now detected at runtime.
> At some point, corel-wine died. Why did it die? When did that 
> happen?

Corel decided that the Linux bandwagon was over, and ceased working on
Wine. They *did* release a copy of WordPerfect for Linux, however it was
felt by the team that they released it too early while it was still
highly unstable and buggy. Apparently a "1.1" version was made available
internally which was much improved, but it never officially saw the
light of day.

That's all I know - it was before my time ;)

thanks -mike

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On November 27, 2003 09:02 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I also have specific questions, if anyone knows the answers:
> - What is the current status of "--with-nptl" on RH9? Is it positively
>
> necessary to include that when running ./configure? I know it's not
> necessary when running wineinstall.

No it's not needed anymore, in fact it has been removed recently.
We now figure that stuff dynamically.