why is Kronenberg's Wine/Mac work blacklisted on winehq?

Steven Edwards winehacker at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 14:42:23 CDT 2009


On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Dmitry
Timoshkov<dmitry at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Darwine site claims that it's under GPL. In any case different name means
> a different product regardless of claims and intentions. Darwine is not
> Wine, plain and simple.

I have a Mac that I've given Austin English access to for his Wine
hacking needs and he's got a set of scripts for building and running
Winetests. I am happy to provide binaries of stock Winehq but I don't
see any reason why we can't link to Mike's Darwine build. Maybe he's
not had time to cleanup his site, documentation or whatever.

As far as the patches go, fewer and fewer of them are needed. Austin
has been cleaning up the build script, which btw mostly just satisfies
dependencies. I don't know of any major patch we currently need to
make stock Wine not suck on OS X. Having the extra Darwine stuff like
the helper should not be a problem as it does not mess with Wine
directly. For my own tree, the only major hack I've used from Darwine
is the wine script that is used to launch Wine. It simply insures the
environment is always sane and has the normal stock wine binary
renamed to mwine. Certain Linux package maintainers have recently
expressed interest in bundling the DIB Engine and custom Icon sets in
their Wine packages are we going to stop allowing those package
maintainers to link on Winehq if they do this?

None of these changes seem like a major enough issue to warrant not
supporting the package. I mean hell you support packages built with
different compiler revisions, minor glibc, freetype, libxml2, libjpeg,
libpng, X11, etc library versions and God only knows how many Linux
distribution combinations if someone reports a bug to bugzilla while
the mess that is the Linux distro's gets an easy pass. I think its
clearly a double standard.

-- 
Steven Edwards

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