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Obligatory

Posted May 27, 2006 15:24 UTC (Sat) by hansl (subscriber, #5086)
In reply to: Obligatory by Sho
Parent article: Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)

What's wrong with using Wine? It's the fastest and cheapest
way to port a Windows app to Linux, and if you use Winelib
you can gradually replace Windows dependencies by Unix dependencies
(say, library by library), eventually eliminating the need for
Wine(lib).

What's wrong with that?

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Obligatory

Posted May 31, 2006 3:47 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

But if you are ALREADY using cross-platfrom toolkit (Qt) and a lot of tools from free software word (try strings on windows's GoogleEarth) then surely it's better to spend little more time to create native port. Usage of Windows version of Qt with winelib just looks sooo wrong... surely Google is not stupid enough to go this way ?