Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
Hello,
I believe you the person responsible for the Wine web pages. If this is not true, please disregard the rest of this message and accept my apologies for this uninvited intrusion.
Previous versions of the wine web pages includes information about Solaris/OpenSolaris binaries and info about these systems. Now there is no mention about Solaris/OpenSolaris! For example, the first page says "Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD and MacOS". OK Solaris is a commercial product but so is MacOS! Since I do release binary packages of wine for both Solaris and OpenSolaris at http://ww.sunfreepacks.com could you include this info in the download section. Also, could you please say something like "Run Windows Application on most Unix and Unix-like systems". This shows impartiality and is far more friendly.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
Apostolos Syropoulos
Hi Apostolos, I can see no Wine packages on the link mentioned above. Maintainers of Wine webpages could be reached on wine-devel@winehq.org. Including wine-devel on list.
BTW. There are IPS packages of 1.0.1 for OpenSolaris available (1). Recent Wine compiles well under OpenSolaris too (1.1.17).
Cheers Hark
2009/3/16 Vít Hrachový vit.hrachovy@sandbox.cz:
Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
For example, the first page says "Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD and MacOS". OK Solaris is a commercial product but so is MacOS! Since I do release binary packages of wine for both Solaris and OpenSolaris at http://ww.sunfreepacks.com could you include this info in the download section. Also, could you please say something like "Run Windows Application on most Unix and Unix-like systems". This shows impartiality and is far more friendly.
Didn't someone suggest this change when then new website design was being discussed? I believe I showed support for it too ... But now we're being accused of bias against Solaris? What about HP-UX, AIX, NetBSD, OpenBSD etc.? :P
2009/3/15 Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com:
2009/3/16 Vít Hrachový vit.hrachovy@sandbox.cz:
Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
For example, the first page says "Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD and MacOS". OK Solaris is a commercial product but so is MacOS! Since I do release binary packages of wine for both Solaris and OpenSolaris at http://ww.sunfreepacks.com could you include this info in the download section. Also, could you please say something like "Run Windows Application on most Unix and Unix-like systems". This shows impartiality and is far more friendly.
Didn't someone suggest this change when then new website design was being discussed? I believe I showed support for it too ... But now we're being accused of bias against Solaris? What about HP-UX, AIX, NetBSD, OpenBSD etc.? :P
It's *intended* to run on anything Unix or Unix-like, but in practice, development was Linux-centric for long enough that everything else is in practice a second-class platform, and implying otherwise would be misleading.
I understand the actively supported platforms where stuff can be expected mostly to work (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris) are already listed. AIUI, Wine isn't actually working properly at present on OpenBSD and NetBSD.
(Heck, I'm fiddling with getting it compiling on Windows ... but I'm not demanding that be listed to be fair.)
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:04 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I understand the actively supported platforms where stuff can be expected mostly to work (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris) are already listed. AIUI, Wine isn't actually working properly at present on OpenBSD and NetBSD.
That's correct. Compiles (mostly) on NetBSD, runs some basic stuff. I only tested on a _really_ old computer, as on my desktop my keyboard wouldn't work.
OpenBSD is a whole different beast.
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