News on Wine 1.1.21/MacOSX/XQuartz 2.3.3

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed May 20 09:04:24 CDT 2009


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Roderick Colenbrander
<thunderbird2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Mike Kronenberg
> <mike.kronenberg at kronenberg.org> wrote:
>> On 18.05.2009, at 06:56, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>>
>>> "James McKenzie" <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Austin:
>>>> Contact Mike Kronenberg or Zach Drayer and see what they currently
>>>> have.
>>>
>>> IMHO since they haven't even bothered so far to change the license from
>>> GPL to LGPL to match Wine, and clarify what exactly is so much different
>>> in their builds so that they insist on different naming (Darwine vs.
>>> Wine),
>>> they shouldn't be even considered as partners to the Wine project.
>>>
>>> If we could have our own Wine builds for Intel Macs, that would finally
>>> help to avoid this confusion Darwine adds, and remove it from our Wiki
>>> altogether (since it's apparently where the users coming to them from).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dmitry.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> (I hope I did not double-post, but somehow my mail from yesterday was eaten
>> by filter-gnomes)
>>
>> It's not about being willing to, but plain lack of time.
>> I follow this list closely and work on solutions as time permits.
>> After half a year, it's been four weeks now that I am able again to build
>> and test on a regular base again.
>>
>> There are other components on OS X that need some love, like the
>> winehelper.app into which I'm looking atm.
>>
>> License and renaming is definitely on the list.
>> I thought to revamp the package, once the winehelper is replaced, to not
>> double do the work.
>>
>> As already mentioned, I build the dependencies and store them inside the
>> apple .app package, which allows for drag'n'drop installation and removal.
>>
>> Having the dependencies as frameworks would be even better, as there is a
>> lot of trouble with PATHS, especially if multiple environments are on the
>> system, like fink and macports.
>>
>> But if the name-change is the most pressing issue, I will gladly do that
>> with this weekends release.
>>
>> Mike Kronenberg
>>
>>
>>
>
> Could you also upload some docs / scripts on how to build 'DarWine'
> from scratch? I have an app which I need to run on osx which I like to
> package as well. I have time to help fixing osx issues (duplicating
> the effort is not worth it).
>
> Roderick
>
>
>

It's available under 'build env':
http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/buildenv-1.1.5.zip

-- 
-Austin



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