Hi Michael, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Michael Griepentrog <mgriepent...@wisc.edu> wrote: > I'm primarily interested in improving the Wine experience on OS X. I read > pages from http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX, but I'm not sure how much of that > reflects the current direction of Wine development on Mac. What are the > immediate needs for improving Wine on OS X? Off hand, I know Wine doesn't > compile on Snow Leopard as a 64-bit binary > (http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=31321), but it seems like this issue > isn't limited to OS X. I'm also curious about the status of the Quartz > driver, and if it's something that is still being pursued. Creating a binary > distributable also seems like something that should be addressed, but I > understand that isn't necessarily easy given how applications are "installed" > on OS X.
A quartz driver is far beyond the scope of a SoC project. Stay away from that. Otherwise, you might want to play around with Wine on MacOS yourself for a while, and get the hang of it. It becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that using a Windows app on MacOS doesn't "feel" much like a Mac app. Much of that we can't change, but some of it could be better. It looks and behaves more like a UNIX port, which of course it is, so if you can think of ways to improve it, that'll go some ways toward a credible application. There are probably a few open bugs about Wine on MacOS too, you might have a look at those. Good luck, --Juan
