[gentoo-amd64] Re: Enabling debug info in Wine?

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> posted
5bdc1c8b0803081040k3e83bd5oe583f4b299b68674@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:40:49 -0800:

> One comment about Wine. There is both Open Source software as well as
> free binary distribution software for Windows, especially in the audio
> area. Small signal processing units like reverb and synthesizers, etc.
> Not everythign compiled for Windows is created by the Dark Lords of the
> North West. Anyway, just because we run Wine doesn't mean we have to go
> against your free software mantra. That's a good portion of how I've
> used Wine in the past. Other than that I try, once in awhile, to run a
> game which I've already purchased. Not the best, I know, but better than
> continuing to purchase, or at least I think so. To each his/her own.

Agreed.  

FWIW I've mentioned in the past that I have an old non-freedomware game I 
still run, Master of Orion, original DOS edition, using DOSBOX.  I'm not 
proud of it but do admit that I'm pretty much its slave, as I'm basically 
addicted, tho I can take some comfort in the fact that it's now a decade 
and a half (copywrite 1993 and that was the update I got) old.

As for freedomware designed to run on MS Windows, yes, it does exist.  
However, the platform itself isn't free (of course), and running apps 
thru WINE is sort of like trying to drive from the back seat of a bus 
using planks to control the steering and acceleration.  It may be 
possible, but if one can sit in the driver's seat (run a native Linux 
application doing the same thing, better and faster), it's useful to do 
so. =8^)  I do recognize that choice isn't available for everyone, but 
since I have it for everything I need to run (with that single game 
exception), I take advantage of it.  If you note, I described what I 
choose to do; I didn't claim what you did was wrong for you, but am 
simply glad that I can get away without it, even if it involves a bit of 
pain at times (running gnash or swfdec for flash, for instance, and doing 
without where it fails to work).  It /does/ significantly decomplicate 
the system side of things, since I can and do run nomultilib now. =8^)

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