On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 17:17, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com> wrote:
The package-magician heftig managed to put together a wine-wow64 package which is currently in AUR and enables users to not only run 32bit Windows application on x86_64 Arch like bin32-wine but also 64bit Windows applications. Basically, it contains a 32bit and 64bit Windows environment to do this, a lot like native 64bit Windows installations do, in fact.
Great, more windows bloat in the community.
We'd like to see this package replace bin32-wine in community. It is currently rather untested and before moving we'd like to ask the Arch community to test it first. Before we ask for the test though we first wanted to hear the dear opinions of this mailing list's fine gentlemen.
Sadly, using it also implies moving a bunch of lib32s and the cross32 chain into community. This will be a problem for some people.
I hate any kind of lib32-* package and moving more to community will just make me grr.
To summarize: wine-wow64 is like bin32-wine but with the ability to run 64bit applications.
Aren't windows applications almost all 32bit? I remember reading somewhere that most applications for 64 bit windows are still 32 bit.
-- Sven-Hendrik
It's not you, it's wine-wow64 :P
Well, consider it from this perspective: The purposed wine-wow64 would (if it proves to reliably serve all purposes the other did) replace bin32-wine, which is now in [community]. And while you may dislike it, it's certainly better than a bin32-*!