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03/14/2015
by André Hentschel
Issue: 387

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This is the 387th issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at www.winehq.org


This week, 190 posts consumed 102 K. There were 24 different contributors. 14 (58%) posted more than once. 16 (66%) posted last week too.

The top 5 posters of the week were:

  1. 11 posts in 15K by piotr.caban at gmail.com (Piotr Caban)
  2. 9 posts in 6K by dmitry at baikal.ru (Dmitry Timoshkov)
  3. 7 posts in 5K by madewokherd at gmail.com (Vincent Povirk)
  4. 5 posts in 4K by julliard at winehq.org (Alexandre Julliard)
  5. 4 posts in 7K by stefandoesinger at gmail.com (Stefan Dösinger)

Wine in Buildroot Archive

From the Buildroot website:

Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel image and a bootloader image. Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with small or embedded systems, using various CPU architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.) : it automates the building process of your embedded system and eases the cross-compilation process.

Wine 1.6.2 can now be built with Buildroot when using its git version. This feature will land in 2015.05 and might open new ways for testing Wine while it's also possible to simply build a very minimal Wine installation.

It's quite easy to update the Wine recipe to a newer version like 1.7.38 and test it with varying versions of the surrounding software including the C library, the Kernel, the compiler and most of the dependencies of Wine. With some tweaking all this can be done on all architectures currently supported by Wine (x86, x86_64, PowerPC, ARM, ARM64) and it can also be useful for porting Wine to new architectures.


Weekly AppDB/Bugzilla Status Changes Archive
AppDB / Bugzilla
Bugzilla Changes:

Category Total Bugs Last Issue Total Bugs This Issue Net Change
UNCONFIRMED 2837 2858 +21
NEW 3477 3462 -15
ASSIGNED 15 16 +1
REOPENED 114 114 0
RESOLVED 188 187 -1
CLOSED 31513 31572 +59
TOTAL OPEN 6443 6450 +7
TOTAL 38144 38209 +65



AppDB Application Status Changes

*Disclaimer: These lists of changes are automatically generated by information entered into the AppDB. These results are subject to the opinions of the users submitting application reviews. The Wine community does not guarantee that even though an application may be upgraded to 'Gold' or 'Platinum' in this list, that you will have the same experience and would provide a similar rating.

Updates by App Maintainers

Application Old Status/Version New Status/Version Change
Brink 1 Silver (1.3.37) Platinum (1.7.34)
+2
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom 1.x Gold (1.7.17) Platinum (1.7.37)
+1
StarCraft II Current Gold (1.6.2) Platinum (1.7.37)
+1
1Starshine Legacy Episode 1: Mystery of the Soul R... Gold (1.7.33) Platinum (1.7.34)
+1
1Starshine Legacy Episode 2: Secret of Pine Hill M... Gold (1.7.33) Platinum (1.7.34)
+1
1Starshine Legacy Episode 3: Legend of Pandoria 1.... Gold (1.7.33) Platinum (1.7.34)
+1
1Starshine Legacy Episode 4: The Riddle of Dark Co... Gold (1.7.33) Platinum (1.7.34)
+1
Super Collapse n/a Gold (1.0-rc5) Platinum (1.6.2)
+1
The Settlers III Quest of the Amazons: Demo Gold (1.2-rc1) Platinum (1.7.34)
+1
Zeus: Master of Olympus 1.x Gold (1.7.17) Platinum (1.7.37)
+1
1Zeus: Master of Olympus Official Expansion: Posei... Garbage (1.6.2) Platinum (1.7.37)
+4
Total Change
+15

Updates by the Public

Application Old Status/Version New Status/Version Change
Alpha Prime Steam Gold (1.2-rc4) Platinum (1.7.38)
+1
Project64 1.6 Silver (1.5.31) Platinum (1.6.2)
+2
Salammbo: Battle of Carthage 1.1 Garbage (1.3.12) Platinum (1.7.36)
+4
The Sims 4 1.2.16.10 Bronze (1.7.32) Platinum (1.7.36)
+3
WISO (Steuer) Sparbuch 2014 Gold (1.6.2) Platinum (1.7.33)
+1
EverQuest EverQuest (Live) Garbage (1.4.1) Gold (1.6.2)
+3
FineReader 6.0 Sprint Silver (0.9.55) Gold (1.7.37)
+1
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 1.x Steam Silver (1.7.22) Gold (1.7.38)
+1
Operation Flashpoint 1.96 GOTY Bronze (1.3.7) Gold (1.6.2)
+2
Powerpoint 2007 Silver (1.5.11) Gold (1.6.1)
+1
SketchUp 2015 Silver (1.7.35) Gold (1.7.37)
+1
The Bard's Tale 2.7.2.7 Garbage (1.4.1) Gold (1.6.2)
+3
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 1.0.x Platinum (1.3.13) Gold (1.6.2)
-1
The Forest Steam Garbage (1.7.26) Gold (1.7.34)
+3
Trackmania 2: Canyon steam Platinum (1.7.18) Gold (1.7.34)
-1
World of Warcraft 6.1.0 Silver (1.6.2) Gold (1.7.36)
+1
Adobe Digital Editions 4.0 Gold (1.7.33) Silver (1.7.34)
-1
Origin Latest Release Gold (1.7.36) Silver (1.7.38)
-1
Skype 7.x Garbage (1.6.2) Bronze (1.7.34)
+1
Adobe Reader 11.x Bronze (1.7.31) Garbage (1.7.37)
-1
Evernote 5.8.x Silver (1.6.2) Garbage (1.7.34)
-2
StarCraft II Current Gold (1.6.2) Garbage (1.7.37)
-3
Total Change
+18

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