On Jul 20, 2015 10:33 AM, "jre" <jre.wine...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 07/19/2015 11:45 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:03 PM, jre wrote: > >> Please let me know if this sounds good to you and whether I should start > >> working on this again. > > > > I was planning to wait for 1.8 to come out to do the > > stable/development packaging unificiation, and then after that to work > > on the alternatives setup. > > But do you actually know when the 1.8 release will happen? Although I > hope that it will be before Stretch, I don't think we can take this for > granted. Or it might happen too late for larger changes like this. > > The closest I could find is this from February by Michael Stefaniuc > (https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2015-February/106509.html): > "Version 1.8 is not even in sight as the two major features Android and > CSMT are still far away." > > Therefore I suggest to go ahead with the alternatives setup now > *without* unifying the packaging yet, while already implementing it in a > way that doesn't have to be changed later on. > > Greets > jre > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-wine-party mailing list > pkg-wine-pa...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-wine-party
Agreed, there is no time line for 1.8 in use immediate future that I'm aware of upstream.
