May
20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches. OpenLink
announced the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a
library that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work
simplifies the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer
necessary have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub
program. [via
Mono Project
News]
What has happened here is that we have created an a
Linux/UNIX shared library based API for WINE (which is a WIN32 emulation
layer). Thiswill accelerate (via development simplication)
the System.Windows.Forms namespace implementation within
Mono.