Hi,
I'm interested in contributing to Wine, and I'm posting here for guidance on how to get started. I'll start off with a bit about myself: I'm currently a senior majoring in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and will be graduating in May. Most of my upper-level coursework has pertained to operating systems and networking, but I also have experience with OpenGL and Cocoa/Objective-C. I haven't really contributed to any other projects, so this is both new and foreign to me.
I'm primarily interested in improving the Wine experience on OS X. I read pages from http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX, but I'm not sure how much of that reflects the current direction of Wine development on Mac. What are the immediate needs for improving Wine on OS X? Off hand, I know Wine doesn't compile on Snow Leopard as a 64-bit binary (http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=31321), but it seems like this issue isn't limited to OS X. I'm also curious about the status of the Quartz driver, and if it's something that is still being pursued. Creating a binary distributable also seems like something that should be addressed, but I understand that isn't necessarily easy given how applications are "installed" on OS X.
So whatever the current direction is for the OS X port, I would like to get involved in making it better. I look forward to hearing what suggestions you have for me.
Thanks, Michael Griepentrog
Hi Michael,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Michael Griepentrog mgriepentrog@wisc.edu wrote:
I'm primarily interested in improving the Wine experience on OS X. I read pages from http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX, but I'm not sure how much of that reflects the current direction of Wine development on Mac. What are the immediate needs for improving Wine on OS X? Off hand, I know Wine doesn't compile on Snow Leopard as a 64-bit binary (http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=31321), but it seems like this issue isn't limited to OS X. I'm also curious about the status of the Quartz driver, and if it's something that is still being pursued. Creating a binary distributable also seems like something that should be addressed, but I understand that isn't necessarily easy given how applications are "installed" on OS X.
A quartz driver is far beyond the scope of a SoC project. Stay away from that.
Otherwise, you might want to play around with Wine on MacOS yourself for a while, and get the hang of it. It becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that using a Windows app on MacOS doesn't "feel" much like a Mac app. Much of that we can't change, but some of it could be better. It looks and behaves more like a UNIX port, which of course it is, so if you can think of ways to improve it, that'll go some ways toward a credible application. There are probably a few open bugs about Wine on MacOS too, you might have a look at those.
Good luck, --Juan
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