On 8/31/21 1:25 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
"Zebediah Figura (she/her)" zfigura@codeweavers.com writes:
(3) Most importantly, I would like to coöperate with distributions. As I understand, they already don't like the way we distribute wine-mono and wine-gecko, and I don't think we should annoy them any further by going behind their back and distributing more pre-built libraries.
I know people here think that they won't want to distribute PE libraries, but I'm inclined to think that at least some distributions won't be happy with our proposed solution either. See [1] [2] [3] [4] for popular distributions trying to discourage source imports and static libraries. I get that we're a special case, and maybe distributions will think so too, but I really want to again argue that we shouldn't be making that decision for them.
Have you tried asking them?
I haven't yet. I didn't really want to speak on behalf of the Wine project if the consensus was against consulting them, and I didn't want to start that conversation without the possibility that its fruits would at least be taken into account. But if there are no objections I'll start writing some mails.
Remember that we need the libs to have custom names, to avoid conflicts with Windows apps shipping the same libs.
Yep, I've been keeping that in mind. If we want to distribute shared libraries I'm inclined to think the best solution there is to copy (or symlink, or fake-symlink) them into the prefix with different names.