A brief summary of Wineconf 2009 by Scott Ritchie
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A brief summary of Wineconf 2009 by Scott Ritchie, Scott went into detail about all the happenings at this years Wineconf. If you want to know about the changes in store for Wine (the 1.2 stable release) and WineHQ in 2010 you will most defiantly want to read on...
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- We’re serious about a 1.2 release in the next few months. As Alexandre said, “it’s time”.
- 64 bit support will be the major new release goal.
- For most people, having no regressions and working with way more apps than 1.0.1 did will be the actual feature they care about.
- Users will need to make a new Wine installation to migrate from 32-bit to 64/32-bit capable. It is left to me to figure out and code a humane way to present this. This is also a convenient time to make their Wine folder case insensitive.
- We’re giving up on separate Pulse/ALSA/OSS/Jack sound driver layers and instead doing the smart thing: passing everything to OpenAL. Maarten Lankhorst will handle most of it.
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