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TWINE - Wine and Twin converge
mecca writes "CodeWeavers has announced they are in the process of merging the Willows TWIN code and Wine code in order to help port Windows software." Interestingly this project is being spear-headed by Rob Farnum, the key architect of Twin. The resulting code will be under the LGPL (Twin is LGPL'd, Wine is BSD'd. So the LGPL wins).It would appear that the Wine guys are cool with this. Some Twine code is available now, and more should come soon. Codeweavers is offering employment including to people who don't want to move to cold Minnesota. -
Windows->Linux Porting Tools?
Anonymous to Avoid Corporate Wrath writes "Writing a whole new GUI for all the apps is likely to be pretty intractable for me alone, so I am trying to investigate the porting tool options further. Can any tell me of a useful Win->Linux porting path that supports MFC and DCOM?" Interesting question! Click below for more... ..continued
"I'm looking to do unofficial ports of some of my company's applications to Linux in the hopes that I can then drum up demand, and get them officially released. My problem is this: the company's current strategy is to code for NT and then cross-compile for Unix using third-party porting tools such as those available from Bristol or MainWin, but neither of these support Linux, or any x86 Unix for that matter. I do know that Wine and Willows TWIN have open source Win->Unix porting libraries, but I don't think they support everything the company's products need...