Re: Win32 port

[lebarre us ibm com]

I don't think you understood the model.  Given the situation of a large app
being developed under one OS, then ported to another, I would prefer a
Linux to Win32.  Winelib is fine for what it does, but I don't want to see
everything "dumbed down" to the Windows requirements.

To go back to the beginning, I was suggesting using Gnome as a replacement
desktop shell instead of Explorer.  I've thought this would probably
require the Win32 port of XFree86 (why re-invent that part?)



James E. LaBarre
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bob@thestuff.net on 06/06/2000 03:24:09 PM

To:   James LaBarre/Hawthorne/Contr/IBM@IBMUS
cc:   gnome-list@gnome.org
Subject:  Re: Win32 port



So you want to make stable/free apps unstable and require a costly os?
sounds like a bad jump. :)
When going from Linux/Unix to Windows, you loose the main things that made
the app good in the first place.