wine users - Nov 2010 - Wine for next computing era

Reading the most recent news, we can see that the time has come to break the
WinIntel monopoly on the world.
Many devices are emerging, many architectures are being developed.
The opensource community is getting great visibility.
We should start thinking in bringing wine to this new scenario that is
approaching.
Many surprises are coming for the years to come.
Why not we bring wine to devices such as Androids and iPhones.
I know that this should be some huge task, but the latter we start, faster we
reach our objectives.
If we can make some Windows applications run on top of theses new architectures
and systems, we are going to get most attention and maybe new investments in the
development of wine.

fernandocarvalho wrote:
> Why not we bring wine to devices such as Androids and iPhones.
> If we can make some Windows applications run on top of theses new
architectures and systems
That's not how Wine works. Wine does not emulate CPU. This design decision
was  made clear on multiple occasions.

For sure you won't ever get i* whatever version of Wine, since apple
explicitly prohibits this type of applications.

Besides, usefulness of windows desktop programs on smart phones / pads is highly
questionable. And if you are looking for such setup you got the wrong device for
the job or not trying to find a replacement for 10 years old application.

So Wine will ever be useless on ARM architecture?

fernandocarvalho wrote:
> So Wine will ever be useless on ARM architecture?
Why useless? You would still be able to run winelib apps (programs compiled with
winegcc).

fernandocarvalho  I know this is going to be hard to except but we are really at
the end of a age in the computer world.

x86 emulation really is not that effective on arm.   Recompliers will only work
with some applications.

MS was trying to move to .net to get cpu neutral programs because they could see
this end coming.

Lot more will have to consider proper porting.