Hi Jörg, Juan,
On 25 Jun 2009, at 22:05, Juan Lang wrote:
Greetings Jörg,
Yesterday I edited http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/FAQs to be much
less outdated than before and today I found that Dmitry Timoshkov
removed all references to Mike Kronenberg's Wine binary
distribution at http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/
This is unappropriate censorship to me.
I can't speculate about Dmitry's motivations, but there is one simple
rationale I can think of for such an action: the Wine project does
not generally provide support for binary distributions. The only
exceptions are those that are simple compiles of the official WineHQ
git source, with required dependencies, but otherwise unmodified
source. Mike Kronenberg's package may be close to this, but as long
as it has any patches applied that are not in mainline, it doesn't
qualify, at least in my opinion.
This isn't to say that Mike isn't free to make his own distribution
available, subject to the usual license restrictions. It just means
that we're under no obligation to mention it.
--Juan
IMHO, it would be sufficient to add a "not supported by winehq.org"
disclaimer next to the mention. If there currently is no binary
distribution that packs the vanilla wine tree then you're making it
unnecessarily difficult to obtain a binary distribution for the Mac OS
X crowd. XCode is a separate install/download (weighing in at almost
1GB) and people are generally less comfortable with the command line
than Linux folks. I had to google quite a bit to find current wine
packages for OS X and a link on the wiki would have been much
appreciated.
Cheers,
-Maik
