Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov@gmail.com writes:
So you are saying that you aim to keep wine working on distributions which are no longer supported by their respective vendors/communities? It does seem strange to keep 5+ and in some cases 15+ year old workarounds, but hey-ho.
If anything I got inspired by your commits, which are removing fallbacks assuming common Unix functionality. Although I don't know if said code was getting in the way, since the commit messages are quite sparse.
The fallbacks were meant to support building on Windows, but with the PE conversion the Windows and Unix parts are properly separated, so the Unix parts no longer need the Windows workarounds.
Out of curiosity; Is there a genuine set of people who use _latest_ wine with such old distros or is that a case of "I know someone who might".
We do get bug reports regularly, yes. For a recent example see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51862