Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Conway S. Smith" <beolach@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine on AMD64?
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:25:55
Message-Id: 20080121082453.5984a15d@mandalor.homelinux.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine on AMD64? by Brett Johnson
1 On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:06:27 -0600
2 Brett Johnson <brett@××××.com> wrote:
3 <snip>
4 > There is no 64 bit support for
5 > wine, and I doubt there ever will be support (at least in the next
6 > 10 years).
7 >
8
9 There is no 64-bit support currently, but it is planned.
10
11 From:
12 <http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-c6d55929038c6d0f481bd9342fc8edadd0412671>
13 "Simultaneous support for 64-bit Windows applications is planned for
14 the distant future, after Wine's 1.0 release."
15
16 My guess is that the "distant future" is more likely to be <5 years
17 rather than >10 years (assuming a lot of actual 64-bit Windows apps
18 start showing up), but I'm really not educated enough on the topic
19 to be a reliable source.
20
21
22 Conway S. Smith

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