On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:56:28PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote: > Hello (mostly wine package maintainers), > > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 05:07:55PM +0200, Massimo Del Fedele wrote: > > James McKenzie ha scritto: > >> Good work. Have you started to think about how to get this into Wine > >> where AJ will approve? > > > > Ah, I'm not very optimistic that it'll ever enter on wine tree :-) > > Nor have I time to adopt the "trial and error" way up to it's > > approved. > > The easiest way I see by now is to add it to wine drivers as an > > "alternative" driver in parallel to X11 one. > > That could be done in less then 5 minutes and with no regressions :-) > > So from the end users point of view Alexandre is refusing this solution which > is much better than what exists now into the official wine tree. > To "solve" this problem from an end users view, I see two approaches: > 1) Alexandre is willing to allow that code into the wine repository, so > it can be maintained in sync with the existing wine code (it is my > understanding that the modifications to existing code are quite small) > and leave it to the user to choose which code to use. > 2) We use the same solution that is used by the linux kernel developers: > Keep the official source clean but add any (dearly wanted/needed) > features as part of the distribution kernel.
The distribution these days only accept stuff that has chances to be upstream. Keeping it in a parallel repo forever will not fly. Ciao, Marcus
