PlayOnLinux Has Experimental BSD Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PlayOnLinux Has Experimental BSD Support

The PlayOnLinux open-source project that's a graphical front-end to Wine to ease the installation of Windows games on Linux and other applications, is continuing to push ahead as it gains more features against CodeWeavers' CrossOver software...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc4MDU

[BSDude]

I guess if the BSD experiment goes well then the project can be renamed to POP (Play on POSIX)

[curaga]

Totally waiting for Play on SteamOS.

[Luke_Wolf]

Awesome, so once they get that all finished up and in the ports tree and compatibility with modern linux distros through the linuxolator, plus improve the radeon driver I can then properly evaluate switching to PC-BSD

[Dukenukemx]

First rule of Wine forums is to not speak of PlayOnLinux.

[reCAPTCHA]

First rule of Wine forums is to not speak of PlayOnLinux.

It somehow makes sense if one considers that wine developers are behind CrossOver project too.

Not that I agree, but is understandable somehow, isn't it?

[stqn]

Awesome, so once they get that all finished up and in the ports tree and compatibility with modern linux distros through the linuxolator, plus improve the radeon driver I can then properly evaluate switching to PC-BSD

Yep, if Linux games and Steam could work under BSD?

[Apopas]

I guess if the BSD experiment goes well then the project can be renamed to POP (Play on POSIX)

Good one

[Attent?ter]

Yep, if Linux games and Steam could work under BSD?

i think they call it Steam for MAC

[ninez]

It somehow makes sense if one considers that wine developers are behind CrossOver project too.

Not that I agree, but is understandable somehow, isn't it?

Nope, it isn't that "wine developers are behind CrossOver". It's that CodeWeavers manages wine development. [and obviously, Crossover development]. [but note: POL isn't competition for CodeWeavers/Crossover, in any sense at all... and no one is hiring POL devs to port applications to winelib, help with wine use in a product, etc.].

POL users can't get help in Wine forums because they aren't using Vanilla/upstream wine - POL may introduce hacks/patches that can potentially lead to different bugs [that may not be in upstream wine], etc ~ So one can't expect to get support from wine developers, if they are using a different build ~ thus, they are told to go get help from POL, not upstream Wine.... the same is true of CrossOver, Etersoft-wine, etc. [Crossover, Etersoft, POL, other commercial builds of Wine usually have their own bug reporting system/tracker].

There are exceptions, meaning some of these other wine projects/developers do visit the forums or devel list - but their problems tend to be more specific and not an end-user trying to get wine developers to fix XYZ problem in unsupported builds... Myself, I have gotten help from various wine developers over the years, on my own builds. If i bump into an issue/bug - I figure out if it is a wine bug or not. If it is, i simply remove any extra debug/messages from the outputand/or i reproduce the issue on vanilla-wine... If it is a problem specific to a patch/my build - then i disclose that information, usually link to the patch [that is the culprit] and ask for pointers/assistance...I've never been shunned away by wine-devs for doing so - usually they are very helpful/insightful.

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