* Dan Kegel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > >On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Marcus Meissner wrote: > >> > >>No, Redhat Phoebe is affected already (is that 8.1?). Shipping soon. > > > >Duh! So what will it happen -- Wine will not run on RH 8.1?!? > > That's right. This is a top priority worry of mine. > It's so bad that I was considering working on it myself, > since nobody else seemed to be worried.
I am worried also and, though I have yet to throw myself into wine internals even *once*, I am also willing to give whatever I can to this effort. I use Wine from time to time, but more than anything else I have been watching its progress from the sidelines for potential future uses and also a "feeling" of how it is a key OSS project worth keeping an eye on. What disturbs me most about this pthread/glibc issue is the (apparent) impunity with which the glibc maintainer has just barged ahead with this disruptive change with (again, apparently) little concern for the fallout it would cause. Wine is important to anyone who cares about the ongoing political dynamics of the open source software cause, and one could be forgiven for assuming the glibc folks themselves would fall into this category?! IMHO the glibc maintainer should have been circling wagons before this problem came to a head - and wine is certainly one of the wagons to get priority circling.[1] Now if I've been wrong and the fault here is on the wine development project (or Codeweavers, Transgaming, etc) for not planning sufficiently ahead, then please point me to archives of the appropriate threads (pun half-intended) and the glibc maintainer can have my apologies in advance. Dan - if you want to co-ordinate this and are willing to accommodate my coming to grips with the wine specifics (have you ever contemplated a less precise request for help? :-), please get in touch via private email and I'll do what I can to contribute, investigate, research, hack, whatever. Regards, Geoff [1] For that matter, has anyone attempted to pull this person into the wine discussion to help flesh this out and find the optimal way forward? Surely any self-respecting (L)GPLer would hate to see a major tool for open source advancement getting hurt over this without so much as some constructive help? -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/
