Re: Need Debian Developer for TWINE package
Since last year I've been making sporadic efforts to package TWINE. But
my own machines are too slow for debugging the packaging of such a huge
beast and doing stuff on va.debian.org was not fun.
But if you have done all the hard work :-) I would love to help get this
program into Debian.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Andrew Lynch wrote:
> Debian Developer Gurus;
>
> There is a really neat new LGPL Windows porting tool
> available that appears to not be supported by the
> Debian community. I would like to correct this
> situation. The tool is called TWINE and is available
> from
>
> http://www.codeweavers.com/index.shtml
>
> The porting library is a combination of Twin and Wine.
> It has been built and tested on RedHat, SuSE,
> Slackware, and Caldera's distributions of Linux, but
> Debian is not represented.
>
> I have successfully built this program on my Debian
> 2.1 laptop and it works pretty good. I have gotten
> several windows programs to execute successfully. The
> real strength of this tool is not its direct execution
> of windows binaries (like Wine), but its ability to
> recompile windows MSCV++ source code, even with MFC
> 4.2!
>
> Is there some Debian developer who would like to
> package this tool for inclusion in Debian? I'd like
> to package it but I am not a developer. I am willing
> to help a developer and send you my working version
> and provide any technical assistance.
>
> TWINE is an important effort, distinct from Wine and
> Twin, that could potentially revolutionize Linux.
> Allowing a simple recompile of MSVC++ source code to
> create a native linux application with windows look
> and feel could potentially bring a flood of new
> developers and applications to the linux operating
> system. This is too important to ignore.
>
> Please contact me for more information. If no
> existing Debian maintainer volunteers, I will apply to
> become a Debian package maintainer for TWINE. The
> recent thread on requiring months to be approved as a
> package maintainer has me concerned though...
>
> Andrew Lynch
> lynchaj@yahoo.com
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