The whiskey, the front facade that focuses on games for Wine’s Windows on tools McCosHe is He no longer receives updates. As one of The most useful The respectable tools in the Mac Gamer Tools group can be considered a great loss, but its developer hopes to go in what it considers a better option: support Codeweavers’ Crossover Product.
Also, the Creator of the whiskey is a 18 -year -old university student, and he can use a break.
“I am 18 years old, yes, and I study the University of North Istrin, so it is always a balanced act between my school work and Dave’s work,” Isaac Marovitz He wrote to Ars Technica. Marovitz says that the whiskey project “was somewhat in this case for a few months. The notice was often published for clarification and officially announced, after I received” a lot of questions “about the project status.
Contribution “practically zero”
Marovitz is not Slacker, after I previously worked on Ryujinx emulator switchWhich was closed after an agreement with Nintendo, and other games projects, including Playcover. So, while the break is good, there is another big reason: “Whiskey, in my opinion, was not positive in the wine society as a whole.” Books on the whiskey site.
It has been advised that whiskey users buy a crossed license, and note that although Codeweves and Valve currencies on Proton had a significant impact on the wine project, “the amount in which the whiskey like a whole contributes to wine is in practice.” Marovitz books, MAC reforms that operate wine “You should come from people who are not unbelievable to C, Wine, Windows, but also MacOS”, and “The Group of Developers who have these skills is very limited.”
While Marovitz Ars tells that he had “contacts with Codeweavers” in making whiskey, “They were always curious and never told me what I should or should not do.” It became clear to him, “From what [CodeWeavers] It can tell me as well as monitor the position of the broader society that the whiskey can seriously threaten the survival of a cross. “
The center of the main whiskey page now holds a constant notice that “the whiskey is no longer actively preserved. Applications and games may be broken at any time.”
Inclined
CEO Codeweavers Books on the company blog Late last week about the closure of whiskey, covered with a picture of a cup of spirit flowing against a cup of wine. James B. Rami: “Perhaps the whiskey was a cross -rival, but this is not what we feel today.” “Our response is simply the response of sympathy, understanding and recognition of Isaac.”
Rami pointed out that the whiskey was a free packaging for an open source project, designed by a person, such as Kroos, did this as “a work of love that built people who are deeply interested in giving users more options.” But Marovitz faced “collapse of user expectations”, Rami wrote, regarding the compatibility of the game, performance and features. Rami wrote: “The truth is that the test, support and development takes real resources … If Codeweavers are not applicable due to the lack of sustainability of the intersection, it is possible that the future development of wine and protection and support for MacOS games will be inhibited.
Rami wrote, “We raise our hat” to Isaac and the influence that he caused on MacOS games, “and she chose strangely this colloquial greeting instead of analogy of the most obvious drinks for the two projects.
