winequartz.drv Mac OS X UI discontinued?

[Jim White]

Any developer that wants to maintain source and/or binaries on the 
Darwine project at SF.net is welcome to do so.

I have responded to every such request that I have seen, which isn't to 
say of course that someone hasn't sent such a message that I haven't 
seen.  Folks should be aware that you must subscribe to the list to post 
(although I do manually review posts from non-subscribers and try to put 
through any that are actually about Darwine and not male enhancement or 
get rich quick...).  It is true that questions from users trying to run 
application X may not get much help other than being told Darwine isn't 
ready for end users.

Of course folks are also welcome to host their own builds, and I'd be 
happy if someone came along and just fixed the web site (which suffered 
greatly in the move back to SF.net from opendarwin.org - I didn't want 
to leave SF.net in the first place...), so we could point other folks to 
those builds.

It was never my intention that Darwine be a fork of Wine, but rather a 
friendly haven for Mac developers working on Wine.  If that means doing 
more for users such as hosting binaries, then I'm fine with that too.

Geeze.  I just looked at the download stats and folks are pulling almost 
300 copies a day (nearly 7GB).  It would be nice if they were using that 
bandwidth to get something useful...

Jim White
http://darwine.sf.net/

James McKenzie wrote:

> Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> 
>>Looks like you overreacted, http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/ has nothing
>>to do with darwine except using its name.
>>  
> 
> Actually, I have Mike's code and it uses the Darwine build system and 
> applies two patches to it.  One brings in FontForge so that Apple Native 
> fonts will work in Wine, and this is discussed on the Building Wine for 
> MacOSX web page.  The other fixes a known problem for Leopard's handling 
> of screen location (it does not always use :0.0 for security 
> reasons).    I will suggest that he bring back into the Darwine project 
> his fixes.   I think he already has tried but received no response from 
> the Project.
> 
> As to the rest, AJ has stated, repeatedly, that he wants no Obj-C in the 
> Wine tree.  This prevents bringing in some Mac specific code, and 
> completely eliminates the winequartz.drv project.  I'm not going to 
> argue with his reasoning, but this forces a Native version of Wine to be 
> a continuous fork with fixes in Wine requiring fixes (if winex11.drv is 
> changed) in the code.
> 
> As to support for the Mac, I have been doing what some Mac users are 
> doing now:  Building my own.  Unfortunately, I do not have a place to 
> put my builds where the public can download them.  Also, they contain 
> code that has not been approved for the main Wine build and may contain 
> 'dangerous' code.  I'm willing to risk my system's stability to test, 
> but not others.
> 
> James McKenzie