On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Henri Verbeet <hverb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/5/11 Joerg Mayer <jma...@loplof.de>: >> As I think that Alexandre has stated his preference (and I can understand >> him taking a long term view), I want to ask the packagers for the distros >> out there: Would it be OK for you to add the necessary patch into the >> code that you distribute. Personally, that means Marcus and the openSUSE >> wine packages :-) >> > While distributions are of course free to do that, keep in mind that > that would also make them responsible for supporting that code. I'm > not sure how feasible that would be for something so close to core > Wine functionality.
Perhaps a wine-experimental branch, with applicable warnings? Getting a bunch of people to test it may give us good data on how much it improves things, which is currently lacking. -- -Austin