Tweak 'Will there be a Windows version of Wine?':

- Add a pointer to the MinGW project - Fix the ReactOS case - Explain the rationale behind these porting projects

Tweak 'Will there be a Windows version of Wine?':
36491dba · Francois Gouget · Alexandre Julliard · de1990f4 · 36491dba
Commit 36491dba authored Aug 22, 2003 by Francois Gouget Committed by Alexandre Julliard Aug 22, 2003
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@@ -485,19 +485,26 @@
      </question>
      <answer>
        <para>
-          Some people are working on getting Wine code to compile on Windows.
+          Some people are working on getting Wine code to compile on Windows
+          using one of the following projects as a basis:
        </para>
        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
          <listitem> 
            <para>
-              Cygwin (<ulink url="http:/www.cygwin.com">
-              http://www.cygwin.com/</ulink>)
+              Cygwin
+              (<ulink url="http:/www.cygwin.com/">http://www.cygwin.com</>)
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
-              Reactos (<ulink url="http://www.reactos.com/">
-             http://www.reactos.com/</ulink>)
+              MinGW
+              (<ulink url="http:/www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org</>)
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              ReactOS
+              (<ulink url="http://www.reactos.com/">http://www.reactos.com</>)
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
@@ -505,6 +512,18 @@
          There's some progress, so a Wine version that's usable on Windows
          might be available at some time.
        </para>
+        <para>
+          Part of the rationale for these projects is to find out areas where
+          Wine portability is lacking. This is especially true of the
+          ReactOS project which is a reimplementation of the Windows kernel
+          and should thus be able to reuse most of Wine dlls.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Another reason for pursuing these projects is to be able to
+          replace a single Windows dll with its Wine counterpart. Besides
+          being a good test for the Wine dll, this lets us detect cases where
+          we made incorrect assumptions about how the dlls interact.
+        </para>
      </answer>
      </qandaentry>