Re: Wine, qemu, emulators

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>> The problem is that if mingw+wine doesn't work for me (as developer) I
>> won't be able to produce Windows package and feel confident that they
>> will work.
>
> You can also produce or test the Windows packages on real Windows, to get
> confidence, no?

Of course.  So, maybe we can adapt a philosophy to encourage reporters
(me included) to reproduce problems under Windows before filing bugs
about problems under Wine?  That is fine with me, and I will make an
effort to reproduce under real Windows before filing bugs I notice under
Wine in the future.

Having a native Windows auto-builder would be useful here, I'll see if I
can find a spare machine and a Windows license somewhere...

>> Also, I think a fair number of people actually do use Windows software
>> via Wine.
>
> That's true for closed-source software. Also for GPLed software??

Yes I believe so.  Typically these people use Wine to get
interoperability with some piece of non-GPL software or to develop for
the Windows platform.  For example, I have installed the Windows version
of MSYS and Emacs on my debian machine and use them via Wine.

/Simon