wine users - May 2008 - Why is wine not prepackaged on the download site

the reason that the x11 for macintosh being broken is insufficient as a cause
for not having a package on the download site. the darwine source cvs repository
does not carry a version on it. i personally cannot compile the source for my
computer. i can install xfree86, though. if this fixes the x11 problem,
considering that most people can achieve this, should there not be updated
packages along with the other supported operating systems on sourceforge.
hopefully by the official 1.0 release this will have happened.

gat wrote:
> the reason that the x11 for macintosh being broken is insufficient as a
cause for not having a package on the download site.
The 'brokenness' of X11 on the Mac is NOT the reason that there is no 
downloadable version of Wine for the Mac (PowerPC or Intel.)  The fact 
that the Darwine project is NOT a part of the Wine project is.  Thus, if 
you want to download a copy of Wine for the Mac, you should visit the 
Darwine project or MikesMassiveMess.
>  the darwine source cvs repository does not carry a version on it.
The Darwine project does not carry Wine source code and the 
create_darwine_distrib shell script goes to the Wine repository for Wine 
code.
>  i personally cannot compile the source for my computer.
Details on your computer?  What processor does it use and what version 
of MacOSX are you using?
>  i can install xfree86, though. if this fixes the x11 problem, considering
that most people can achieve this, should there not be updated packages along
with the other supported operating systems on sourceforge. hopefully by the
official 1.0 release this will have happened.
>   
Again, which version of MacOSX and what machine type, PowerPC or Intel 
are you trying to build Darwine on?

James McKenzie

Darwine for an intel macintosh computer is actually wine. There is no
difference. The project was originally created to use qemu to emulate and allow
ppc architectures to use wine. My problem is that the latest compiled wine for
osx is on kronenberg's website which is 1.0-rc-1. I was hoping to test some
applications on rc-2. The reason that winehq.org lists for not having a binary
for mac os x on intels is that there is a problem with the x11 windowing
environment that make wine not as great as it could possibly be and that the
wine group does not want to give a bad impression of its software. If you search
the website you can find it James. As I said before the instructions on
compiling for os x from the wine website say to tell the installer the version
through the terminal. My problem with this is that I am hasty to believe that
this is kept up to date as the new release candidates are.

I use Tiger still.