Hi Siju , You can go ahead with it. regards Praseed Pai
--- On Sun, 8/29/10, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Siju George <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Distributions > To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" > <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 6:28 AM > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:36 PM, > Praseed Pai <[email protected]> > wrote: > > hi Siju , > > > > I am familiar with ReactOS initiative. ( I have not > tried it yet though) > > > > > > What i was putting forward is different. It is very > hard to do Binary Translation ( sort of ) for every foriegn > Binary ( read Microsoft Windows based Portable Executable ) > recieved on Wine and React OS. The Wine project > > and React OS can provide libraries for Every Windows > API call. They cannot > > reproduce the bugs in the Microsoft's Implementation. > Too often in the case of system software , bugs tends to > cancel each other. That is why all programs cannot run > successfully at the Binary Level. > > > > Alright :-) I get it! > > > In my case , the source code base was recompiled on > Fedora 10 and Debian Lenny . The Windows API libraries were > taken from Wine and the other libraries , i substituted with > it's Posix equivalent. So , it is not same as Binary > Translation. ( The terminolgy might get confused here ) > > > > > > I am advocating the Source to Binary Translation using > tools like GCC , Mono , Harbour , GCJ. The empahsis is on > porting applications than running it. > > > > To do these stuff , we need to build a community of > developers who are familiar with Cross Platform Programming > , Polyglot Programming ( Mixed Language Programming ) , > Windows Programming ( Know your "enemy" well before you > attack them ) and Other System Programming toopics. I am > talking about building a community of developers who can > tackle this. > > > > Moreover , i was talking about things which i have > done (emphasis) recently. I am willing to share this to > anyone interested !. > > > > Can I post your email to other relevant milinglists? > > thanks > > --Siju > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
