wine users - Mar 2011 - Wine wrapper project useing windows installation disc

i got a idea instead of creating wine from scratch witch is a extremely slow
process why not make wine as a utility that pulls all files and binary's
needed from a windows in stallion disc and wine could be set up with the wine
drive but with actual windows binary's.

my idea would be that wine just acts as a wrapper that enables the windows code
to work in Linux

if you own your own copy of windows it could be legal. This idea could be better
because instead of creating everything from scratch it could be possible that
wine pulls all files needed from your own windows disc and set up the same way
that it normally is with the wine drive except it would use windows code
therefore you would possibly have a 100 percent compatibility rate with all
windows software you would have windows under wine.

it could be you add your own windows files and wine just be a tool that sets it
up under linux for you. i am not a programmer but am working on learning and i
do understand some things but i still don't know enough. I hope a programmer
here could bring my idea to fruition  i believe it should be a open source
project and a part of wine if this is possible  just a different idea if this
could be possible maybe it could be a side project to see if it will work.
please give input on what you think about this idea

Theory and reality.  Theory maybe.

Reality it don't work.  More often than not the more real windows parts you
have the more conflicts you run into with Linux differences in design to
windows.

Yes more MS code the less likely 100 percent compatibility will be.

On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 23:04 -0500, jimhackthorn wrote:
> i got a idea instead of creating wine from scratch witch is a
> extremely slow process why not make wine as a utility that pulls all
> files and binary's needed from a windows in stallion disc and wine
> could be set up with the wine drive but with actual windows binary's. 
> 
You've entirely missed the point, which is to avoid the use of Windows,
or parts thereof, as far as possible. That is, after all, why you're
running Linux. I for one have no intention of owning an illegal copy of
Windows or of buying a legal one. 

If I can't run a legally acquired Windows program using Wine or Dosbox
then I'll use use the native Linux equivalent, write my own or go
without.


Martin

jimhackthorn wrote:
> a utility that pulls all files and binary's needed from a windows in
stallion disc and wine could be set up with the wine drive but with actual
windows binary's.
> 
> my idea would be that wine just acts as a wrapper that enables the windows
code to work in Linux

Martin is right, the whole point of Wine is to NOT have Windows. If you're
going to use all of the Windows binaries you might as well just install it in
Virtual Box or VMWare.