svn commit: r46541 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Apr 14 22:02:59 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Tue Apr 14 22:02:58 2015
New Revision: 46541
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46541

Log:
  Add the wine report
  
  Approved by:	hrs (mentor, implicit)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Tue Apr 14 21:33:46 2015	(r46540)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Tue Apr 14 22:02:58 2015	(r46541)
@@ -1081,4 +1081,122 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>Wine/FreeBSD</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Gerald</given>
+	  <common>Pfeifer</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>gerald at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>David</given>
+	  <common>Naylor</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>dbn at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Wine">Wine wiki</url>
+      <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/i386-Wine">Wine on amd64 wiki</url>
+      <url href="http://www.winehq.org">Wine homepage</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>This quarter has seen five updates to the
+	<tt>wine-devel</tt> port that closely tracks upstream
+	development, as well as updates to helper ports
+	(<tt>wine-gecko-devel</tt> and <tt>wine-mono-devel</tt>):</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Stable releases: 1.6.2 (1 port revision)</li>
+	<li>Development releases: 1.7.34 through 1.7.39</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>A major development has been the introduction of Wine64
+	(i.e.,  the ability to run 64-bit Windows applications).  This
+	is currently available through the wine-devel port.  At this
+	stage it is currently mutually exclusive with the
+	i386-wine-devel port, however we have plans to intregate these
+	ports to offer a full Wine experience on amd64.  The
+	i386-wine-devel port has packages built for amd64 for &os;
+	8.4, 9.1+, 10.1+ and CURRENT.</p>
+
+      <p>Accomplishments include:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Upstreaming 8 patches to fix Wine on &os; — many
+	  thanks to Gerald and David.</li>
+	<li>Optional support for V4L has been added to the stable
+	  <tt>emulators/wine</tt> port.</li>
+	<li>Optionally building wine with the X composite extension
+	  (if one selects the X11 option).</li>
+	<li>Support for alternative toolchains that require
+	  <tt>LD</tt> to be honoured.</li>
+	<li>Fixing and tidying up the pkg-plist.</li>
+	<li>Wine64 support</li>
+	<li>Updating the patch-nvidia.sh script to support
+	  arbitary suffixes.</li>
+	<li>Removing support for the old pkg_ tools from
+	  patch-nvidia.sh.</li>
+	<li>Developing a patch to fix usage of getdirentries(2).
+	  This fixes Steam, EVE Online and other applications.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>We would like to thank all volunteers who contributed
+	feedback and patches.</p>
+
+      <p>Future development on Wine will focus on:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Rename <tt>wine-compholio</tt> to
+	  <tt>wine-staging</tt> (to match upstream development).</li>
+	<li>Add the getdirentries(2) patch to the
+	  <tt>wine-devel</tt> port.</li>
+	<li>Redevelop and upstream the getdirentries(2) patch.</li>
+	<li>Redevelop and upstream the kernel32 Makefile patch.</li>
+	<li>Add support to the <tt>i386-wine</tt> port for pkg 1.5
+	  (conflicts with libraries currently prevent support).</li>
+	<li>Add support for WoW64:
+	  <ul>
+	    <li>Reduce the <tt>i386-wine</tt> port to just the
+	      components required for WoW64.</li>
+	    <li>Rename the i386-wine port to wow64.</li>
+	    <li>Make the wine ports depend on the wow64 ports when
+	      built on amd64.</li>
+	    <li>Investigate and verify the interactions between Wine64
+	      and WoW64.</li>
+	    <li>Investigate possible update approaches for the wow64
+	      ports (that have to be pre-compiled) and how updating
+	      with the wine ports will work.</li>
+	  </ul>
+	</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>Maintaining and improving Wine is a major undertaking
+	that directly impacts end-users on &os; (including many
+	gamers).  If you are interested in helping, please contact us.
+	We will happily accept patches, suggest areas of focus or have
+	a chat.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>&os;/amd64 integration (see the <a
+	    href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/i386-Wine">i386-Wine
+	    wiki</a>).</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Porting WoW64.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
