On 5/21/11 12:34 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
And again, using Wine doesn't count as supporting Linux, so why the hell should the other way around be any different?
Because, at least in my eyes, there is a huge difference between telling your users that using Wine they might be able to get your software to work on Linux (which is typically the most you can hope for if you are a Linux user), and using MinGW to make porting your application to Windows easier, which is not necessarily visible to the end user.
(Yes, Wine is occasionally used by software vendors themselves as well, like in the form of Transgaming Cider by Riot Games for the Mac version of their League of Legends game, but I hope you'll agree that this is not what one typically thinks about when Wine is mentioned.)
David
