[fpc-pascal] alternative name fpc cross

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Tue Oct 10 15:13:05 CEST 2017



On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, pascalX at piments.com wrote:

> On 10/10/17 13:29, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
>>   Linux Subsystem for Windows.
>
> While I know what you mean ...
>
> I used to be maintainer on Wine AppDB for several years. Nothing ever 
> worked from one release to the next.  WINE spent 10y  as an alpha 
> release and it started to get embarrassing so they called it beta. 
> Everything still, broke , it is still an alpha produce in all but name.
>
> Sadly the target is moving faster than their ability to emulate it.
>
> As for attempting to run a stable and secure  OS inside an insecure and 
> unstable one, that's a great way to combine all the disadvantages of 
> both. Probably clinically certifiable behaviour or at least "autistic 
> spectrum".
>
>
> ;)

LOL :)

My point of view since 15+ years... 
Don't mix the 2 environments. Frustration and disappointment guaranteed.
It used to work more or less with VMWare and Virtualbox, but even this is
now becoming more a source of frustration than of satisfaction...

Michael.



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