Alex Tanner wrote:
I can't understand why the members of the Wine project are always complaining about lack of manpower. The lack of manpower is probably due to there being different flavours of Wine developed by different companies.
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I think you overestimate the real number of Wine forks out there. At CodeWeavers we contribute back all our Wine patches with very few exceptions. See the wine-patches mailing list and look for patches from '@codeweavers.com' to see what I mean. So really all our work directly benefits Wine and reciprocally we do weekly imports of the Wine tree so that we do not duplicate the work done by the Wine community. So it's very synergistic there.
And I am sure that all other Wine contractors and companies but one also work on the standard WineHQ sources and make sure their patches get promptly integrated into the main tree. Besides, Wine being LGPL, there is a garantee that the source for any forked tree will be available so we can pick patches and merge them with the main tree.