Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2013-03-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
I believe there is a resource gap with wine package maintenance - the packages are very behind Dean On 31/03/2013, at 7:31 AM, Durandal wrote: > Is there no possibility of linking Wine with QEMU to provide Windows x86 and > x64 binary compatibility? That would be the killer app for Wine on

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2013-03-30 Thread Durandal
Is there no possibility of linking Wine with QEMU to provide Windows x86 and x64 binary compatibility? That would be the killer app for Wine on PPC, of course, and I would absolutely love to see that accomplished. -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/wine-considered-no

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:07:31PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Just curious why that is? The latest wine built fine on powerpc in > experimental: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=wine&arch=powerpc Does wine include a proper test suite to make sure it can run real world binaries

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:28:20AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Interesting question, as windows did once upon-a-time run on powerpc > (wikipedia says so, so it must be true > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#32-bit_platforms) > > Does someone need to run notepad for powerpc on linux thoug

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-06 Thread Philipp Kern
Aubrey, am Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:44:21PM -0700 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > AFAIK Wine doesn't emulate the CPU (not an emulator). The binaries are > still run as binaries. And almost all Windows binaries are for x86. So > while Wine might be able to compile and run on PowerPC, the Windows >

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-05 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:07:31 -0400 Michael Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is the right list. I see that wine is in powerpc's > not-for-us list in sid: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=powerpc&suite=sid > > Just curio

Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc

2012-06-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
Interesting question, as windows did once upon-a-time run on powerpc (wikipedia says so, so it must be true http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#32-bit_platforms) Does someone need to run notepad for powerpc on linux though? Dean On 06/06/12 11:07, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure