Pipelight has been working with upstream Wine to get their patches there. But they won't be in a stable release till wine1.8, which will be some years from now.
In the meantime the PPA actually works by bundling a second, modified version of Wine only used by pipelight and installed in /opt. This is similar to how ported games that embed Wine work. This is good design as it prevents underlying changes to the system wine (such as a user following the Wine PPA) from breaking pipelight, and also a necessary design as it has to hold their pipelight-specific patches. A distro package would use a similar approach (although perhaps moving the wine-compholio from /opt to /usr/lib/wine-compholio), and then when wine1.8 is released we can evaluate having it just depend on system wine. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schins...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > That is a valid point, Pipelight depending on a patched version of Wine. I > hadn't actually considered that when I wrote the original email. > > So I guess that'd be the challenge if anyone was up for it. I still don't > understand why it would have to block anything, though, if it enables you to > do stuff on its own. There would be no real-life competition between > compholio and upstream wine. It should be possible to have both if that's > necessary in order to accomplish something major. And I think Pipelight does > exactly that. > > > On 21 December 2013 22:26, Bryan Quigley <gquig...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It definitely needs a good number of patches.. They are working to get >> them upstream though: >> http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-compile-wine.html >> http://www.compholio.com/wine-compholio/ >> >> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pipelight/netflix-desktop/wine-compholio/files/head:/patches/ >> >> I have not investigated which page is the most up-to-date.... I'm pretty >> sure they would be open to help upstreaming some of their patches... >> >> Stable branch does not appear to be an option for this number of patches. >> >> Thanks, >> Bryan >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Kai Mast <m...@kai-mast.de> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/21/2013 04:09 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: >>> > I've used Pipelight for some time now, and I've found it to be one of >>> > the most valuable new packages I've come across this year. It enables >>> > the use of the Silverlight plugin in native Ubuntu browsers. >>> > >>> > In my opinion, if this plugin could be made easily available in >>> > 14.04LTS without adding a PPA and so forth, I think this could be >>> > considered a killer-feature in 14.04LTS. >>> > >>> > Has this been up to discussion at all? What are the chances it'll make >>> > it into official repositories in time? >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> if I see this correctly Pipelight depends on a patched version of Wine. >>> Will these patches be upstreamed at some point? >>> The compholio PPA also seems to build wine 1.7. Does it also work with >>> the stable branch? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kai >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >>> ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >> >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >> ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >> > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop