On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 15:49 -0400, Albert Lee wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 04:53 -0700, Ch?? Kristo wrote: > > First of all I am not exactly clear on how these things are done > officially as there is no documentation on os.org (not that I can find > anyway) as to how a community is proposed. My understanding that a > community is a precursor to a project...feel free to guide me in the > right direction. > > > > What I am proposing: > > A community focused on running Wine on OpenSolaris and it's > derivitaves (Belenix, Indiana, SXDE and so on). This proposal includes > related open source technologies such as Wine-Doors. > > > > What is Wine?, sourced from Wikipedia: > > Wine is a software application which aims to allow Unix-like > computer operating systems on the x86 architecture to execute programs > written for Microsoft Windows. Wine also provides a software library > known as Winelib which developers can compile Windows applications > against to help port them to Unix-like systems. > > > > How will this benefit the OpenSolaris community and in particular > the desktop community?: > > The OpenSolaris community and Sun Microsystems are reaching out to > developers by positioning OpenSolaris as a desktop development > platform. Many developers use their systems also as a desktop platform > and need to use the same applications as their Windows using > colleagues. The most common being applications like Photoshop or > Visio. > > > > Support: > > Link: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=48261&tstart=0 > > This was proposed in the discuss community but it looks like it > didn't get any attention as it wasn't proposed in the Desktop > community > > > > Resources: > > WineHQ: http://winehq.org/ > > Wine-Doors: http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/ > > Codeweavers: http://www.codeweavers.com/ > > Blastwave wine: http://www.blastwave.org/wine/ > > > +1 from me. > > I'm the current maintainer of the Wine package in SFE and work closely > with the Wine developers, and I'd love a central place to gather > information on issues specific to Wine on OpenSolaris. A community > might > make more sense than a project with a specified schedule and > deliverables. > > SFEwine has the most current set of patches for Wine. These work > around > some important bugs related to OpenSolaris on Wine's Bugzilla right > now, > as well as some additional functionality that is missing. > > Bob: I believe the patches on the Blastwave site are current for the > version that is in binary form on Blastwave (also Wine is LGPL rather > than GPL). > > BTW, using Wine-Doors is discouraged by the Wine developers as it > makes > problematic changes to the default Wine configuration. I would suggest > against supporting that software until it has ironed out its own > issues.
Are Codeweavers willing to create a Solaris version of their Crossover Office suite? Something like that would really help in terms of compatibility and migrating people away from Windows. Matthew
