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Important Note on the Future of Win32-OS/2
There is bad news and good news.

The bad news is that no work has been done on Win32-OS/2 since A0.04 was released in September 1998. Also, the individuals leading the development of Win32-OS/2 have called it quits, mostly because their day jobs have become too demanding. So A0.04 is the last version of Win32-OS/2.

The good news is much better, though. The OS/2 Netlabs has decided to take over development of Win32-OS/2, but with a twist. The EverBlue Project is a group of developers who are porting xlib to OS/2. Xlib is like the Presentation Manager for the Unix. It is the core library for graphical applications that run under X Windows on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. By bringing xlib to OS/2, it will be possible to port easily almost every Unix application to OS/2. We already have emx for porting non-GUI applications; xlib takes care of the rest.

What does this have to do with Win32-OS/2? Once xlib is ported to OS/2, the OS/2 Netlabs will begin porting Wine itself to OS/2. The OS/2 version of Wine may use some of the code of Win32-OS/2, specifically the code that converts and loads a Win32 application.

Currently, the OS/2 Netlabs is making preparations for accepting the source code to Win32-OS/2. The source code to Win32-OS/2 itself will not be available for some time, if ever. The reason is that a some of the code is borrowed from other places, and therefore cannot be publicly released until it is "cleaned up". In the process of merging Win32-OS/2 with Wine, the OS/2 Netlabs will remove most of the offending code, and the rest will be made available along with the source code to Wine itself.

Please do not bother the Win32-OS/2 or OS/2 Netlabs members with any questions, especially questions as to when any of this will occur. This web page and the OS/2 Netlabs website are your only sources of information.

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