I am sorry to see anyone go from any types of active contribution.
I dream of the day there will be less distro package dependencies if
that ends up being the result from using mingw to compile PE-libs, cos
it is somewhat a pita compiling multilib wine using Ubuntu atleast.
Best of luck to you :)
Sveinar
On 28.09.2020 19:08, Austin English wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 9:09 AM Jens Reyer <jre.winesim@gmail.com
> <mailto:jre.winesim@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sorry to say: I retire from being active for Wine and Debian.
>
> It's mainly because the focus of my life shifted to other things.
> Maybe
> that'll change again some time and I'll come back, but please
> don't plan
> with that in mind. I'll be available for any questions and will
> try to
> help anyone with taking over.
>
>
> Sorry to see you go! Thanks for your work on this over the years.
>
> * Build dependencies
> A few years ago we only had to make sure that unicode-data and
> khronos-api were packaged in the correct version. Nowadays there is an
> increasing number of wine-specific build-dependencies like faudio,
> vkd3d
> and more. Also upstream changed how it builds DLLs towards PE. I
> never
> had a look on what that specifically means. Probably this helps with
> distros retiring their 32-bit archs, and may change how we build Wine:
> also build 32-bit Wine on 64-bit (?). I suggest to emphasize on
> building
> current Wine versions, even if this means that no
>
>
> FYI, the main motivation for the PE switch is to fix some DRM schemes
> (i.e., https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21232 et al).
> --
> -Austin
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