Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Submission of Wine programs

[Aljosha Papsch]

Hi Savannah hackers,

Am So, 27. Sep, 2015 um 12:15 schrieb Karl Berry <address@hidden>:
>     What's the policy about accepting programs that run on Wine?  I'm
>     asking this because of the submission:
>     https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?13750
>
> I don't recall the question being explicitly asked before.
>
> It seems to me that even if a program runs under Wine, in practice a
> package that works only in a Windows environment of whatever kind will
> necessarily induce people to use Windows -- thinking that people will 
> go
> install wine just to run such a package seems delusionary to me.
> Therefore I conclude the submission should not be accepted.
> We have certainly rejected Windows-only submissions in the past.
>
> That's my opinion.  If you want to get an official ruling,
> address@hidden is the place to ask.  --karl

Another compelling reason to reject Windows/Wine only software is that 
building those packages is unreasonably hard or even impossible with 
free software. One example is HeidiSQL. It is released as free 
software, with a big source code button on the download page[0]. 
Though, when I download it I only find build information files for some 
proprietary build program. This indicates that GNU/Linux "support" via 
Wine (as mentioned on the download page) is only an afterthought.

Best regards,
Aljosha Papsch

[0] http://www.heidisql.com/download.php