[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Tue Aug 31 13:25:25 CDT 2021


"Zebediah Figura (she/her)" <zfigura at codeweavers.com> writes:

> (3) Most importantly, I would like to coöperate with distributions. As
> I understand, they already don't like the way we distribute wine-mono
> and wine-gecko, and I don't think we should annoy them any further by
> going behind their back and distributing more pre-built libraries.
>
> I know people here think that they won't want to distribute PE
> libraries, but I'm inclined to think that at least some distributions 
> won't be happy with our proposed solution either. See [1] [2] [3] [4]
> for popular distributions trying to discourage source imports and
> static libraries. I get that we're a special case, and maybe
> distributions will think so too, but I really want to again argue that
> we shouldn't be making that decision for them.

Have you tried asking them?

Remember that we need the libs to have custom names, to avoid conflicts
with Windows apps shipping the same libs.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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