winequartz.drv Mac OS X UI discontinued?

[James McKenzie]

Emmanuel Maillard wrote:
>
> Le 11 avr. 09 à 18:20, James McKenzie a écrit :
>
>> Emmanuel Maillard wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 3 janv. 09 à 04:14, James McKenzie a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Emmanuel Maillard wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 4 juil. 08 à 12:37, Adam Strzelecki a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Emmanuel, hello Wine developers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Latest WineQuartz.drv patch is 0.9.58. Is there any change for
>>>>>> more  recent release? I tried this patch with 1.0-1 however it has
>>>>>> too  many conflicts.
>>>>>> It would be most convenient if you had just update
>>>>>> http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/winequartzdrv.git  to match 1.1.0 somehow
>>>>>> and include Quartz.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I resolved conflicts for wine-1.0, but didn't take a look yet for
>>>>> wine-1.1.0, i just know that's some changes in user32 and winex11.drv
>>>>> have to be update in winequartz.drv too.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will see this week end if i can find free time to make a new
>>>>> patch  for winequartz.drv and send it to SourceForge.
>>>>> (OpenGL is broken in winequartz.drv actually, because of a lack of
>>>>> time to fix it)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Since Wine passed 1.0 (woohoo!) maybe someone from the direction
>>>>>> can  revise Mac support? Even there're numerous Emmanuel efforts
>>>>>> to  provide Mac UI driver instead of X11, it will be always pushed
>>>>>> aside, and sentenced to death, because it is not in official
>>>>>> sources.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know Alexandre Julliard's decision about NOT taking any
>>>>>> Objective- C sources (.m) into the Wine, but maybe this can be
>>>>>> revised, anyway  all .m rules will be only present on Mac
>>>>>> platforms. Using Objective- C is only way to make fair support for
>>>>>> Mac OS GUI, as those whole  GUI system is objective.
>>>>>> Moreover then what's the point of keeping winex11.drv and all GUI
>>>>>> driver infrastructure in Wine if nothing else but X11 is NOT
>>>>>> accepted into official source?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Forgive me what I say now, but I just it would be more fair if
>>>>>> someone from Codeweavers just said that Wine's official support
>>>>>> for  Mac OS X is against their business with CrossOver and this is
>>>>>> the  real reason they reject winequartz.drv from Emmanuel Maillard.
>>>>>> Frankly I'd really pay for CrossOver or Wine, if it was what 1.0-1
>>>>>> is but with native Mac UI, so each wine process has it's own dock
>>>>>> icon, and no X11 is needed and native Mac font system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Adam Strzelecki |: nanoant.com :|
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Emmanuel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Emmanuel:
>>>>
>>>> What is the status of winequartz.drv?  It looks like your last patch
>>>> was for 1.1.2.
>>>>
>>>> James McKenzie
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I didn't really work on winequartz.drv since this patch, start a new
>>> version at the beginning of October,
>>> but more or less waiting for DIB engine.
>>>
>>> Emmanuel
>>
>> Emmanuael:
>>
>> Are you still working on this or have you abandoned it?
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I stopped working on winequartz.drv for now ...
> abandoned ? not totally, but i currently do not envisage to work again
> on it.
Emmanuel:

At one time you stated that this work depends on a DIB engine.  Have you
looked at Max' work?

Also, did work get finished on 1.1.2 or did that stop as well?

James McKenzie