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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!barrnet.net!Reason.cdrom.com!oz.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 - a status report. Date: 28 Oct 1994 13:06:43 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 38 Message-ID: <JKH.94Oct28060643@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <38j31l$6nf@agate.berkeley.edu> <38puin$gp@masala.cc.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu's message of 28 Oct 1994 04:27:03 GMT In article <38puin$gp@masala.cc.uh.edu> wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) writes: As far as I have seen, there were many problem reports regarding on PCFS. But I have not seen the request for SCO binary support (or did I miss it ?). Are you working on the PCFS or is it left as it was ? PCFS has been replaced by msdosfs in FreeBSD 2.0. There are quite a few less problems with msdosfs than there appear to have been with pcfs. Another thing is that I was not successful in making Wine run. I think that this was reported several times. I don't know, Wine support just isn't our focus. If someone in the wine group, or someone more more on the applications side, wishes to knock themselves out trying to keep up with Wine snapshots then that's fine with us. Believe me, we have enough to do just trying to provide infrastructure! I believe that if you have a to-do list, these (reliable PCFS and Wine support) should be on top of the above SCO binary support, especially if you consider that at this moment there the number of programs which run on Wine is growing fast - according to www page of Wine, there were at leat more than 30 games were runningon Wine - from cica). This may not really be the concerns of pure Unix-men, but it will attract many people. It simply can't be our concern - our job is to provide the kind of development platform that the wine users can leverage off of. Now this isn't to say that we don't have _other_ members who's focus is purely applications. One of our members, Jeff Hsu, is actually quite interested in Wine and worked to do the last Wine port for 1.1.5.1, but I don't know what his plans for Wine and 2.0 are. If you wish to see a wine port at least bundled into the FreeBSD 2.0 ports collection, then send mail to hsu@FreeBSD.org and let him know that you want him to do a 2.0 version! Jordan