"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?
Remember that we need the libs to have custom names, to avoid conflicts with Windows apps shipping the same libs.