BasMevissen wrote:...What I want to achieve is to have CloneVDI be a native Linux application. ...
I don't see why you would want to do that, except perhaps as an exercise
for your own purposes. (Sorry to bring this up, in case you have changed
your mind in the last few months.)
The problem with depending on Wine to run an application, as I understand
it, is that in general, if the app works, it's almost by accident. It is too
easy for the app developer to do something non-standard to get some kind
of perceived benefit, without caring if it breaks Wine. I just can't
picture Don doing this. I can't speak for him, but I bet that if
something did happen to CloneVDI to make it fail under Wine, that he would
regard that as a bug and fix it. (Comments, Don?)
It seems from this discussion that building a native Linux port would
amount to forking the project, with all of the risks, duplicated effort,
and brittleness that entails.
If my supposition is true about CloneVDI's future under Wine, what are
the advantages to a native port? To put it bluntly, why would I choose a
native Linux port over using Wine to run Don's latest version?