Hi Scott, On Saturday 18 February 2006 05:31, Scott Ritchie wrote: > Thanks for repackaging Stephan, by the way. I'm sorry I can't do it > myself, but I don't have a Dapper handy machine to play with (nor do I > have my key signed).
No Problem :) As long as I leave your name as maintainer, everything is ok. I don't change anything vital in those packages, only some build-deps, which are different from debian or breezy. Thx for your work on those packages, it's really appreciated. Regards, \sh > Anyway, I highly recommend this version of Wine over any other, mostly > due to the amazing amount of Direct3d improvements it's had - this is > the first version of Wine that quite a few DirectX 8 games were able to > run in (Icewind Dale 2, for instance), due to the finalization of some > backend Direct3d things. Since there aren't any known regressions in > this one of consequence, we should definitely try and stabilize on this > one while we still can. > > Thanks, > Scott Ritchie > > On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 03:05 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > my life is getting complicated...and in the moment I have less time for > > doing some ubuntu stuff, but anyways....I'm preparing the packages for > > wine-0.9.8. > > > > Scott Ritchie already packaged them for winehq, but as you know, I have > > to repackage them, because the version numbering with the "winehq" in it, > > is being nasty for the ubuntu version numbering. > > > > If you want to test the packages on dapper a bit earlier, please grab the > > source and compile them from http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/source/. > > > > > > In the meantime, I'll send you the ChangeLog diff and the diff stat > > output. > > > > > > Why should we update: > > > > Ubuntu users are fans of Wine, a Unix Environment for running > > Windows > > Applications. Since wine 0.9.4, we can see, that Wine upstream > > folks > > are trying to stablelize the software. > > Wine 0.9.8 will give us: > > > > Changes in 0.9.7: > > Directory change notifications can use inotify > > now. > > Hardware breakpoints in the Wine debugger. > > Beginnings of support for tape APIs. > > A bunch of improvements to the IDL compiler. > > Better scheme for mapping My Documents etc. to > > Unix directories. > > > > Changes in 0.9.8: > > Better Web browser support. > > Beginnings of a Wordpad application. > > Many richedit improvements. > > A number of Direct3D fixes. > > A few more options in winecfg. > > > > Risks: > > > > we can have some regressions for windows applications running > > inside > > the wine environment, but this is always a risk we have to take with wine > > at all. -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
