Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:02:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46541 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201504142202.t3EM2xbp032134@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Tue Apr 14 22:02:58 2015 New Revision: 46541 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46541 Log: Add the wine report Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Tue Apr 14 21:33:46 2015 (r46540) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Tue Apr 14 22:02:58 2015 (r46541) @@ -1081,4 +1081,122 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre> </help> </project> + <project cat='ports'> + <title>Wine/FreeBSD</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Gerald</given> + <common>Pfeifer</common> + </name> + <email>gerald@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>David</given> + <common>Naylor</common> + </name> + <email>dbn@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Wine">Wine wiki</url> + <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/i386-Wine">Wine on amd64 wiki</url> + <url href="http://www.winehq.org">Wine homepage</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>This quarter has seen five updates to the + <tt>wine-devel</tt> port that closely tracks upstream + development, as well as updates to helper ports + (<tt>wine-gecko-devel</tt> and <tt>wine-mono-devel</tt>):</p> + + <ul> + <li>Stable releases: 1.6.2 (1 port revision)</li> + <li>Development releases: 1.7.34 through 1.7.39</li> + </ul> + + <p>A major development has been the introduction of Wine64 + (i.e., the ability to run 64-bit Windows applications). This + is currently available through the wine-devel port. At this + stage it is currently mutually exclusive with the + i386-wine-devel port, however we have plans to intregate these + ports to offer a full Wine experience on amd64. The + i386-wine-devel port has packages built for amd64 for &os; + 8.4, 9.1+, 10.1+ and CURRENT.</p> + + <p>Accomplishments include:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Upstreaming 8 patches to fix Wine on &os; — many + thanks to Gerald and David.</li> + <li>Optional support for V4L has been added to the stable + <tt>emulators/wine</tt> port.</li> + <li>Optionally building wine with the X composite extension + (if one selects the X11 option).</li> + <li>Support for alternative toolchains that require + <tt>LD</tt> to be honoured.</li> + <li>Fixing and tidying up the pkg-plist.</li> + <li>Wine64 support</li> + <li>Updating the patch-nvidia.sh script to support + arbitary suffixes.</li> + <li>Removing support for the old pkg_ tools from + patch-nvidia.sh.</li> + <li>Developing a patch to fix usage of getdirentries(2). + This fixes Steam, EVE Online and other applications.</li> + </ul> + + <p>We would like to thank all volunteers who contributed + feedback and patches.</p> + + <p>Future development on Wine will focus on:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Rename <tt>wine-compholio</tt> to + <tt>wine-staging</tt> (to match upstream development).</li> + <li>Add the getdirentries(2) patch to the + <tt>wine-devel</tt> port.</li> + <li>Redevelop and upstream the getdirentries(2) patch.</li> + <li>Redevelop and upstream the kernel32 Makefile patch.</li> + <li>Add support to the <tt>i386-wine</tt> port for pkg 1.5 + (conflicts with libraries currently prevent support).</li> + <li>Add support for WoW64: + <ul> + <li>Reduce the <tt>i386-wine</tt> port to just the + components required for WoW64.</li> + <li>Rename the i386-wine port to wow64.</li> + <li>Make the wine ports depend on the wow64 ports when + built on amd64.</li> + <li>Investigate and verify the interactions between Wine64 + and WoW64.</li> + <li>Investigate possible update approaches for the wow64 + ports (that have to be pre-compiled) and how updating + with the wine ports will work.</li> + </ul> + </li> + </ul> + + <p>Maintaining and improving Wine is a major undertaking + that directly impacts end-users on &os; (including many + gamers). If you are interested in helping, please contact us. + We will happily accept patches, suggest areas of focus or have + a chat.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>&os;/amd64 integration (see the <a + href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/i386-Wine">i386-Wine + wiki</a>).</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Porting WoW64.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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