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RE: Wine on Cygwin


Hmm.  Someone will eventually come along and try to get Wine running under
user-mode Linux running under Cygwin.  That person will have to be shot.

By the way, does Cygwin run under Wine?  ;)

Brad Town


Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com] wrote:
> At 11:01 PM 11/30/2000, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> >On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> >
> > > Why would one want to run Wine on Cygwin which is itself 
> running on what
> > > Wine is trying to emulate?
> >
> >For many reasons:
> >   -- ease of development
> >   -- get more developers (some have only Windows at work)
> >   -- test Cygwin to its limits
> >   -- ditto for Wine
> >   -- it has a large neat factor :)
> >
> >--
> >Dimi.
> 
> 
> 
> Seems to me that getting user-mode Linux 
> (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net) running on Cygwin 
> would be another
> option that may fulfill many of the same goals without the confusing 
> side-effects!;-)  Just a thought and one that can be easily 
> ignored.;-)

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