On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:49:01 -0800, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org wrote:
Hence, I am writing this email. I'd be willing to maintain the Wine packages for Ubuntu, as well as related ones such as winetools.
Anyone willing to maintain packages gets my vote. Thumbs up.
The Wine package at first glance seems a bit different from some Debian standards, for various reasons.
First off, even though Wine has some seemingly shared libraries, I haven't split them off.
Speaking as a non-Debian user, that looks good to me. I hate how you can otherwise have lots of little library packages that are otherwise worthless because they must be used together.
We may want to have an entirely new applications menu for Wine. I envision having Wine installed and then having it create a new folder Applications->Wine, which will contain the Winecfg program labeled "Configure Wine" as well as a near empty start menu with Wine's shipped winelib Notepad program. When other windows programs get installed, they can be put in the Wine start menu there.
It is on my system...
I also had a man message me on AIM thanking me profusely for the Wine packages. Apparently he had won several hundred dollars using a Windows poker program via Wine.
I'll have to make a note not to try that out - I don't need any more excuses for wasting time. On that note, I'm going to Vegas next week. I plan on bringing down the house, retiring, and buying a small Caribbean island.
Anyway, I'd appreciate feedback and thoughts about this, as well as help with my package. Meet me in IRC, I'm YokoZar.
-Brian ("vinn")