Wine

[Sean McLinden]

Yeah, as long as you aren't analyzing malware. WannaCry in Wine could encrypt the contents of the user's HOME directory.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard L. Hamilton" <rlhamil at smart.net>
To: "Sean McLinden" <mclinden at informed.net>
Cc: "Christoph Kukulies" <kuku at kukulies.org>, "macports-users list" <macports-users at lists.macports.org>
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2023 7:44:22 AM
Subject: Re: Wine

Sure, but for some things Wine is good enough and even better. Back in Mojave (32-bit support) and earlier, one could use WineBottler to make a Mac app using Wine that invoked a Windows program. I had that for abc_tags.exe, which is more convenient than VLC for fixing batches of mis-tagged AVI files. No need to fire up a full VM for that. And yes, I have Parallels and VirtualBox and other virtualization products for other platforms; nothing against full virtualization, but sometimes it's overkill.

> On May 1, 2023, at 07:11, Sean McLinden <mclinden at informed.net> wrote:
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> 
> If you don't mind spending a few bucks, Parallels Desktop for Mac supports a full-featured Windows 11 VM.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christoph Kukulies" <kuku at kukulies.org>
> To: macports-users at lists.macports.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2023 4:45:03 AM
> Subject: Wine
> 
> Does macports support Wine ?
> 
> —
> Christoph
>