Wine for GDK apps, to upstream or to not upstream, that is the question.

[oosaka dayo]

Recently came across a repo that patches wine with the modules required to
run first party GDK apps. Upstreaming it would be a huge gain for the
gaming space, Minecraft is by far the biggest game on the planet, and most
of the user base is on BE/PE. I've tried it and the patches work, there's
work to be done, none of the online services work yet, but it's way better
than any of the alternatives, and has been my goto for McBE. Updating wine
every time is a bit of a hassle though, considering how the project doesn't
even use wine as a submodule, rather the author manually down streams the
changes every oh so much...

Re: Upstreaming
The current issue is: the developer of the project doesn't wanna upstream
it cause of anonymousity, which I understand, but it's a huge miss,
considering how this change could also be easily down(up?)streamed to
proton and such, where it would really help (McBE on Deck would be the
perfect match);
So, I'm not sure how to move from here, I'd really like the patches to be
upstreamed, but I'm not sure who can do it or how. The code that's been
changed is public license, per the author's readme...

How do you think it's gonna be approached?
Thanks,
Dave

P.S. Yes currently there is no clean way to obtain the game's decrypted
executable, I got mine because of my job, but it's not publicly available
yet. Either way, we'll cross that bridge when we get there...

[Alistair Leslie-Hughes]

This was previously discussed here.

https://list.winehq.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/THAA...


Best Regards
Alistair

On 2/25/26 13:56, oosaka dayo via Wine-devel wrote:
> Recently came across a repo that patches wine with the modules required 
> to run first party GDK apps. Upstreaming it would be a huge gain for the 
> gaming space, Minecraft is by far the biggest game on the planet, and 
> most of the user base is on BE/PE. I've tried it and the patches work, 
> there's work to be done, none of the online services work yet, but it's 
> way better than any of the alternatives, and has been my goto for McBE. 
> Updating wine every time is a bit of a hassle though, considering how 
> the project doesn't even use wine as a submodule, rather the author 
> manually down streams the changes every oh so much...
>
> Re: Upstreaming
> The current issue is: the developer of the project doesn't wanna 
> upstream it cause of anonymousity, which I understand, but it's a huge 
> miss, considering how this change could also be easily down(up?)streamed 
> to proton and such, where it would really help (McBE on Deck would be 
> the perfect match);
> So, I'm not sure how to move from here, I'd really like the patches to 
> be upstreamed, but I'm not sure who can do it or how. The code that's 
> been changed is public license, per the author's readme...
>
> How do you think it's gonna be approached?
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> P.S. Yes currently there is no clean way to obtain the game's decrypted 
> executable, I got mine because of my job, but it's not publicly 
> available yet. Either way, we'll cross that bridge when we get there...