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0 pointshxorr1d ago0 comments

ReactOS also deserves an honorary mention. A lot of knowledge from that project feeds into Wine.

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pdpi1d ago

And vice-versa. It's pretty interesting that the two projects haven't kind of merged despite all the collaboration.

Wine devs do not want to work with people who have looked at ReactOS[0] (see at the end) so any collaboration is one-way (or by ignoring the guidelines) and the likelihood of the two projects merging is zero.

[0] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guide...

DaSHacka1d ago

Surprised no one responded to the 7th comment in that linked email thread, the author brought up a good point about making progress without using any disassembled windows binaries.

MisterTea1d ago

Very different projects so I would not encourage a merge but sharing a code base? I can totally see that being a boon for both and other Windows emulation projects.

Induane1d ago

ReactOS periodically rebases some of it's libraries from Wine.

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