nanogui@linuxhacker.org

Subject: Re: Re[2]: wine
From: mark dufour
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:31:20 +0200 (METDST)


> Moreover it would ve silly to use the mwin/Win32 API for re-writing
> dev_x11. "dev_x11" is the means through which WINE communicates to the
> graphics device [right now only X11R6]. (Veerry silly: Winderz native
> application -> WINE -> dev_x11 -> mwin/Win32 -> hardware)

it wouldn't be silly because dev_x11 would pass most requests directly to
mwin/win32 and no conversions to x style of doing things would be
necessary..

> Yiu know something? You gave me a hell of a nice idea: I can port dev_x11
> to nano-X [well, I know how: tank hao did port FLTK to nano-X so this
> would be feasible too].

wine is a really cool project :-) but most of the wine people are
currently still working on compatibility. after 7 years of hard work ( not
by me ) a 1.0 is finally within a years reach! it would be great to have a
faster, non-x11 graphics driver with the 1.0 release.


mark dufour.