There have been many people asking questions about the future of Wine Staging, turns out it's no longer going to have any new releases.
I won't quote the entire post titled "Future of Wine Staging", but the gist of it is that they just don't have the spare time to put into it now. They have full time jobs, so naturally that doesn't leave much for something like this. I fully understand their situation and wish them all the best, I've seen so many people appreciate the work they did to bring so many different patches together for testing.
The good news, is that there's already a fork available. On top of that, Wine developer Alexandre Julliard posted on the Wine mailing list about keeping it going in some form, so there might be light at the end of the tunnel.
Will be interesting seeing what happens, from what I understand there's a number of games which only work in Wine Staging due to a fair amount of patches not being in Wine proper.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Last edited by 1xok on 18 February 2018 at 9:35 pm UTC
You can expect a Wine Staging release in the next few days.
The new Wine Staging repository is thriving!
Please don't buy software that has no mac or linux client.
Quoting: AsuI so want the wine project dead.
So you are against Feral games too I suppose?
Chances of native games increase with wider adoption of cross platform engines.
Last edited by Shmerl on 19 February 2018 at 5:13 am UTC
Quoting: AsuI so want the wine project dead. (I respect the devs tho.)
Please don't buy software that has no mac or linux client.
Much as I'd love for there to not be a need for Wine, we're not quite to a point where that is always feasible for new software and there's quite a lot of older software that will never work natively nor have a viable native alternative. Hell, in a lot of cases it's a comparative PitA or even impossible to get some of that older software to work correctly on current iterations of Windows, which has drawn some small number of users to at least duel boot a Linux distro in order to use Wine for older Windows software from which point they may even occasionally use some native software as well.
wvstolzing Feb 19, 2018
Quoting: FurorGood news:
The new Wine Staging repository is thriving!
I suppose we don't have to change anything if we're subscribed to the official winehq repos (listed here?
thelimeydragon Feb 19, 2018
Quoting: AsuI so want the wine project dead. (I respect the devs tho.)
Please don't buy software that has no mac or linux client.
I however enjoy playing old Windows 95,98,ME,XP,Vista, etc games... however some still have minor bugs in WINE that will hopefully...eventually get fixed.
I do not want the project to die. In fact it's because of WINE that Linux has better compatibility for old Windows software than modern Windows itself.
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