Linking to a Mac OS X build of Wine from winehq.org/download ?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 21 20:21:52 CST 2008


Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Roderick Colenbrander
>> <thunderbird2k at gmx.net> wrote:
>>     
>>>> Say, http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/ seems to be a popular source
>>>> of nearly up to date wine builds for the mac.  How about we link to it
>>>> from http://winehq.org/download/ ?
>>>>
>>>> Furthermore, are his packages good enough to support?
>>>> If so, how 'bout we ask him to add links to bugzilla  and
>>>> the appdb from his page?
>>>>         
>>> Most importantly we need to get rid of the Darwine name. It causes a lot of unneeded confusion.
>>>       
>> Yes, I would like to keep Darwine as the name of the old powerpc project
>> that combined an x86 emulator and wine.
>>
>> Can we convince Mike and Zach to switch names to just plain Wine?
>>     
>
> As one who just spent several days trying to figure this stuff out and
> still isn't quite sure he got it right, I'd like to add "pretty
> please?"
>   
I would like to see something like the following (and it follows the 
OpenOffice.org strategy for releases):

Wine-<version>-<platform>-<CPU>-<installer>.<compression-type>

So Wine for the Mac Intel would appear like this:

Wine-1.1.9-MacOSX-Intel-DragnDrop.dmg

Where Wine for a X86 for Ubuntu 8.1 would appear like this for an x86:

Wine-1.1.9-Ubuntu8.10-x86-apt.tar.gz (assuming that the release was in 
tar.gz.)

What do the rest of you think?

James McKenzie




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