Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 06:10:07 GMT From: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/151747: new port: emulators/wine-fbsd64: request for (a variation of) emulators/wine for amd64 Message-ID: <201102080610.p186A7gD055886@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/151747; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> To: Ulrich =?iso-8859-1?q?Sp=F6rlein?= <uqs@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Subject: Re: ports/151747: new port: emulators/wine-fbsd64: request for (a variation of) emulators/wine for amd64 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:05:59 +0200 --nextPart2139260.cF2FYM60XJ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 07 February 2011 23:36:28 Ulrich Sp=F6rlein wrote: > Just some random comments from the sidelines: Please don't name the port > wine-fbsd64 as it is *not* a port for 64bit FreeBSD platforms, but for > amd64 *only*. It would be best to name it wine-amd64 if it is the one > package that amd64 users should install (I know that there are i386 > binaries inside it ... tricky). =20 Yes, this is the port amd64 uses should install to run their *i386* Windows= =20 binaries. The future is likely to hold a wine port that runs amd64 Windows= =20 binaries. =20 wine-amd64 was my original name for the port but some mistook that port to = be=20 the amd64 port of wine, not the i386 port of wine for amd64 FreeBSD. =20 I suppose wine-i386 may be less ambiguous but then that may lead some to th= ink=20 that port is for i386 only. =20 > Also, a blue bikeshed would be nice :) I prefer the colour that prevents people from accidental mistaking the=20 bikeshed for a carshed (and trying to fit their car in the bikeshed). =20 Luminous pink would be a good start ;-) Seriously, the port currently is ONLY_FOR_ARCH=3Di386 since FreeBSD does no= t=20 support cross building and I have not added the ability for the port to=20 install from an i386 package (although the idea is currently fermenting). = =20 --nextPart2139260.cF2FYM60XJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAk1Q3UsACgkQUaaFgP9pFrLtkgCfQnGsHjMmGPKB0k9mGMZa86Hj UdUAoI1Z1UZnw0mnjdn/Y0uzQq0aQWVz =phVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2139260.cF2FYM60XJ--
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