Re: porting troubles

2000-10-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > How come I find a big fat wine binary running with coreldraw? > > > > Sample top memory processes: > > > > 23600 root 4 0 21704 21M 2600 S 0 2.8 5.5 19:57 X > > 6860 schmitz0 0 19896 19M 11196 S 324 0.0 5.1 0:01 wine > > 6875 schmitz2 0 19896 19M 111

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
> They used winelib. That's the only way to create Linux native applications. How come I find a big fat wine binary running with coreldraw? Sample top memory processes: 23600 root 4 0 21704 21M 2600 S 0 2.8 5.5 19:57 X 6860 schmitz0 0 19896 19M 11196 S 324 0.0 5

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-09 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > They used winelib. That's the only way to create Linux native > applications. > > How come I find a big fat wine binary running with coreldraw? > > Sample top memory processes: > > 23600 root 4 0 21704 21M 2600 S 0 2.8 5.5 19:

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-09 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Using Wine _is_ x86 specific in the sense that Wine emulates enough > of > > > the > > > Windows low level API to let x86 code including DLLs run on Linux. > To my > > > knowledge, there is no port of Wine to another architecture. You > cpould > >

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Using Wine _is_ x86 specific in the sense that Wine emulates enough of > > the > > Windows low level API to let x86 code including DLLs run on Linux. To my > > knowledge, there is no port of Wine to another architecture. You cpould > > argue Wine can be run under some x86 emulator - does making

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Wine so the code may be unportable. There's still enough in the way > of > > > windowmanager-Corel interaction to make you cry). > > > > Using wine as a porting library is not x86 specific. Companies could > use it to > > quickly port to Linux,

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Sergio Brandano
>And M$ just acquired 25% of the shares of Corel, which resulted in a raise of >57% for Corel on the stock market... Oh dear! This means that "Microsoft Linux" is a reality now. There is no escape! We are tosted! :-P Sergio

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Wine so the code may be unportable. There's still enough in the way of > > windowmanager-Corel interaction to make you cry). > > Using wine as a porting library is not x86 specific. Companies could use it > to > quickly port to Linux, testing the response from the community and then doing >

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > And sloppy programming includes the tendency (of companies doing a > quick > > > Linux port) to use Wine (not even winelib) to make regular windows > > > applications run on Linux. Seen that with Corel, and it wasn't a bit > > > pretty in the begi

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > And sloppy programming includes the tendency (of companies doing a quick > > Linux port) to use Wine (not even winelib) to make regular windows > > applications run on Linux. Seen that with Corel, and it wasn't a bit > > pretty in the beginning. Seeing that no company is willing to dedicate >

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: > >SB> Out of blue, why is that Linux now runs stable on six (6) > >SB> different platforms but commercial software like Star, > >SB> Corel, Adobe and IBM, just to mention a few, are only > >SB> available for ix86? Are there any political

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > Out of blue, why is that Linux now runs stable on six (6) different Only 6? :-) > platforms but commercial software like Star, Corel, Adobe and IBM, > just to mention a few, are only available for ix86? Are there any > political or technical reason

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-04 Thread Nelson Abramson
Sergio Brandano wrote: > Out of blue, why is that Linux now runs stable on six (6) different > platforms but commercial software like Star, Corel, Adobe and IBM, > just to mention a few, are only available for ix86? Are there any > political or technical reasons for it? Because they don't fe

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
>SB> Out of blue, why is that Linux now runs stable on six (6) >SB> different platforms but commercial software like Star, >SB> Corel, Adobe and IBM, just to mention a few, are only >SB> available for ix86? Are there any political or technical >SB> reasons for it? > > There ar

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-04 Thread C.M. Connelly
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Out of blue, why is that Linux now runs stable on six (6) SB> different platforms but commercial software like Star, SB> Corel, Adobe and IBM, just to mention a few, are only SB> available for ix86? Are there any political or tec

porting troubles

2000-10-04 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, Out of blue, why is that Linux now runs stable on six (6) different platforms but commercial software like Star, Corel, Adobe and IBM, just to mention a few, are only available for ix86? Are there any political or technical reasons for it? Sergio