On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Roderick Colenbranderthunderbird2k@gmail.com wrote:
If they ship hacks like the DIB engine then we won't accept bug reports for it as it a real big hack and shouldn't be linked to from our website. Tweaking themes or icons is fine. Actually we just need to refine our .msstyles support and then icon can just be part of a theme like they are on Windows.
Maybe that was a bad example though it is opt-in to turn on the DibEngine even it is installed so the amount of false reports from it should be pretty low. But fine, I grant maybe the DibEngine is slightly invasive and if enabled could lead to bogus bug reports. To my knowledge none of the required patches for a Darwine build with current Wine are very invasive.
Normally I wouldn't care about such things but we decided at Wineconf (in Reading I think), when the question of Mac users came up, the consensus was point them at Darwine because nobody wanted to do binary builds. I think we have a brief talk about it at the last Wineconf (I was pretty sick and out of it for most of it) but I don't recall the policy being changed. If we are going to arbitrarily decide to just nuke support for Mike's package (The only semi-actively maintained Darwine) there should be some discussion first because it was a topic at Wineconf. Like I said, I'm happy to offer my box for doing builds if there is really consensus that it needs to change.
Thanks