Proposal to take over macOS packaging

[Dean Greer]

Hi Zhenbo

The proposal does include me (Dean aka Gcenx), the proposal incorporates
the current configuration/findings that are used for the packages I'm
providing.

However the url you provided is for the homebrew tap now the packages for
the actual location see [1]

[1]: https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:39 PM Zhenbo Li <litimetal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How about using Gcenx's package[1]? If Gcenx's package is okay, I
> think we may avoid some duplicate jobs.
>
>
> [1]: https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 2:33 AM Gijs Vermeulen <gijsvrm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Currently, official macOS packages haven't been released since wine-5.7.
> Thus I'm sending this email on behalf of myself and Dean Greer to
> officially nominate ourselves to take over the macOS packaging.
> >
> > There are, however, some specifics we'd like to discuss.
> >
> > The old packages were built with compatibility for macOS 10.8 and
> higher, but Apple stopped supporting 10.8 a very long time ago and it would
> be hard to keep supporting it for the packages.
> >
> > To get anything lower functional would mean needing to compile all the
> needed dylibs on the lowest supported version, as package managers don't
> have prebuilds for these versions.
> >
> > The ideal solution would be to raise the minimum macOS version to 10.13.
> This version has only recently lost support and would allow us to ship
> feature-complete packages.
> >
> > Metal also started maturing a lot from 10.13 onwards. [1]
> >
> > Is this something that you could agree too?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Gijs & Dean
> >
> > [1]
> https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/0d23ecd9ec8a0c24e5444e0fc9cf6933cc39c960
>
>
>
> --
>
> Sincerely,
> Zhenbo Li
>
>
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