[wine-devel] The future of Wine-staging

[Michael Müller]

I am not sure if I understand the question correctly, but the Wine
development and stable builds are available at
http://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/. They are built by Sebastian and me.
If you look closely at the repository url in the installation
instructions from the Wine Staging website, you will also see they point
to dl.winehq.org.

We wrote our own virtual machine based build system for this purpose
(e.g. https://dev.wine-staging.com/builder/group/408/ - Wine 3.2
release), which is largely automated. It requires only little attention
and we therefore continue to offer this service. For the users of the
development and stable branch nothing will change.

Regards,
Michael

Am 17.02.2018 um 21:21 schrieb Alan W. Irwin:
> On 2018-02-17 15:50+0100 Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> 
>> If you haven't seen the sad news yet:
>>
>> https://wine-staging.com/news/2018-02-17-future-wine-staging.html
>>
>> We'll need to discuss how to move forward, but first I want to take the
>> opportunity to thank Sebastian and Michael for their amazing work and
>> dedication over the years. It was indeed a major effort, and they've
>> done an incredible job of it.
>>
>> Wine-staging has done a lot to move Wine forward and make things
>> exciting again, and I hope we can keep that momentum going (we may have
>> to cut down on the number of patches though, so that the workload
>> remains manageable for mere mortals...)
>>
>> Thank you guys!
> 
> My thanks as a Wine user to Sebastian and Michael as well.
> 
> @Alexandre:
> 
> One of the extraordinarily useful services they provided was a Debian
> repository containing the latest (updated each two weeks) wine
> development and wine-staging releases for a variety of different
> Debian versions (Wheezy, Jessie, Stretch, Buster, and Sid).
> I haven't looked at their equivalent  Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint,
> and macOS repositories (see
> <https://wine-staging.com/installation.html>) but I assume they
> have similar large scope.
> 
> If Wine does not already provide distribution repository services of
> such large scope for wine development releases now, could you do so?
> It just makes keeping up with the Wine cutting edge so much easier
> for Linux and Mac OS X users.
> 
> Alan
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