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Chris was trying to say...

Chris was trying to say...

Posted May 30, 2006 1:08 UTC (Tue) by dank (guest, #1865)
In reply to: Obligatory by Sho
Parent article: Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)

... that Google Earth will be a native port, not a Wine
port. The Wine weekly news folks are incorrect in
assuming that Google Earth will use Wine.


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Chris was trying to say...

Posted Jun 1, 2006 14:44 UTC (Thu) by vinn (guest, #23971) [Link]

"the Wine weekly news folks".. that would be me, Dan. Wanna share some details on wine-devel? Will it use Wine at all?

Regarding Picasa and simply recompiling it, you can't. Maybe the front-end has some cross-platform code, but the backend clearly relies on Win32 API's, including MSHTML.

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