[WINEDOCS] add question on Intel MacOS X

Brian Vincent brian.vincent at gmail.com
Mon Mar 20 23:48:13 CST 2006


Are there any other FAQ additions anyone wants to see?  There's at least one
other one I was thinking of adding but have since forgotten.

Changelog:
Brian Vincent
Explicitly address Intel Mac OS X.

Index: en/wine-faq.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/wine/docs/en/wine-faq.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -u -r1.15 wine-faq.sgml
--- en/wine-faq.sgml    1 Feb 2006 04:47:04 -0000       1.15
+++ en/wine-faq.sgml    21 Mar 2006 05:45:34 -0000
@@ -591,9 +591,12 @@
         <para>
           Mac OS X / Darwin: The <ulink
           url="http://darwine.opendarwin.org/">Darwine</ulink> project is
-          currently working on porting Wine to the Darwin/x86 platform.
Their
-          goal is to eventually make it possible to run x86 Windows
+          currently working on porting Wine to the Darwin/x86 platform.
+          Their goal is to eventually make it possible to run x86 Windows
           applications on Darwin/PPC and then Mac OS X by using Bochs.
+          In addition, CodeWeavers has focused some of their resources on
+          Intel Mac OS X as well.  With a little luck, Wine will be running
on
+          it by the third quarter of 2006.
         </para>
         <para>
           FreeBSD: This port is well maintained and should work with
@@ -606,7 +609,32 @@
         </para>
       </answer>
       </qandaentry>
-
+      <qandaentry>
+      <question id="Will-wine-run-on-macintel">
+        <para>
+          I want to run Wine on an Intel Mac OS X (MacIntel) system, will
it
+          work?
+        </para>
+      </question>
+      <answer>
+        <para>
+          (Also see the previous question.)  As of March, 2006, simple
+          applications are just beginning to to run on Intel Mac OS X.
+          It's possible in about 6 months we'll see applications running
+          similarly to how they do on Linux or FreeBSD.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          There are some complicated issues surrounding Wine on Mac OS X.
+          Working with low-level features, such as signal handling and
system
+          registers, are quite different on Mac OS X.  Further hampering
+          the issue are some bugs within the operating system.  Beyond
+          that, integration on Mac OS X becomes difficult because it is
+          vastly different than a traditional *nix desktop.  Menuing
+          and graphics drivers are just two areas that require a complete
+          reimplementation in order to be functional.
+        </para>
+      </answer>
+      </qanaentry>
       <qandaentry>
       <question id="What-minimum-CPU-must-I-have">
         <para>
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