Re: Wine, qemu, emulators

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Simon,

> > Btw, if someone can offer me a login on a real Solaris/x86 box, I would
> > appreciate it.
> 
> Try the opencsw.org people, see http://wiki.opencsw.org/buildfarm

Thanks for the tip. With this access, I could verify that various floating-
point related test failures (from test-isfinite to test-vasnprintf) were
indeed caused by QEMU.

> 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?

> 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??

Bruno