On 12/22/2013 08:49 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote: > 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. You're right. I just remember that some people object to packaging two versions of the same library.
I personally would prefer if the patches were upstreamed and Ubuntu would add a wine1.7/wine-unstable package like in the wine PPA. That way also people who want the latest wine would benefit from this. However, I guess we are running out of time to do this until feature freeze. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
