--- On Wed, 12/12/12, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: > Greetings Wine community, > > As many of you may be aware, CodeWeavers just released > CrossOver 12. We're pleased to announce that CrossOver > 12 includes the long-awaited Mac driver. If you're not > familiar with it, the Mac driver is an alternative to Wine's > X11 driver for use on Mac OS X. It allows Wine to > present windows, receive input from the keyboard and mouse, > and interact with system facilities like the clipboard using > Cocoa and other Mac-native APIs. That allows for > superior integration into the Mac UI and eliminates the need > for the foreign X11 middleware. > > The Mac driver is not yet complete but it's pretty far > along. In CrossOver 12, it's described as an > "experimental" feature and is disabled by default. > We're aware of chunks of functionality, both big and small, > that are simply not implemented yet and there are surely > many bugs in need of squashing. > > You can take a look at the source in CodeWeavers' usual Wine > source tarball at <http://www.codeweavers.com/products/faq/source/>. > The Mac driver lives in dlls/winemac.drv. Because it > was under (somewhat chaotic) development right up until the > release of CrossOver 12, we do not yet have a series of > clean patches for it to submit to Wine. In the coming > days and weeks, I will be reconstructing the Mac driver as > just such a patch series and submitting it. Mind you, > those patches will face the same demanding scrutiny from > Alexandre as everything else, so that process may be slow > and painful. I'm SO looking forward to that!
:-). > Thank you to everyone who contributes to Wine for making > this possible. It will be fun to work with you on > continuing development of the Mac driver. > > Cheers, > Ken Well-done for the work and cheers. I am somewhat curious about the tar ball - why is the version 12 source (120MB) and so much bigger than the previous (44MB)? I can probably work it out by downloading and unpacking both, but I am feeling lazy... Hin-Tak