From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 25 1:13:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF7C37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:13:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.131.111.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3D443F93 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:13:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from [128.131.111.60] (acrux [128.131.111.60]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2P9DJxi012965; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:13:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:13:21 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: OpenS Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WineX In-Reply-To: <20030325135832.4b6599d4.lab_rat@omskmail.ru> Message-ID: References: <20030325135832.4b6599d4.lab_rat@omskmail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-18.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_PINE autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, OpenS wrote: > I know that whrere is a port of Wine, but what do you think about > porting WineX? It`ll be great to to have it in ports. Well, that may be true, but I, at least, certainly won't do that, for a couple of reasons: o licensing: Have you checked all the details on the WineX site? o portability: I'm already spending a significant amount of time keeping Wine compiling on FreeBSD (though most of this happens upstream, so it may not be not very visible), and I'd expect WineX to be at least as bad and very Linux-centric, not the least because they cannot take all those portability patches from Wine for license reasons. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message