Rebase: Wine-8.0-NSPA

[nine7nine]

• Feature freeze is approaching fast, leading up to Wine-8.0 release.
• I believe Valve will also be planning to rebase Proton on wine-8.0 (soonish / experimental branch)
• The changes between 7.22 - 8.0 should be relatively minimal, no big overhauls
• In the last few months, Wine has had some non-trivial (perf-related) changes that are tricky to backport to Wine-7.5.

Given the above, it is time to start thinking about rebasing and reworking all of my patchwork for a Wine-8.0-NSPA release... all of my own patches should be relatively easy to rebase AND I should be able to drop a ton of patches that have been merged already...

• I should just start with a clean / up-to-date Wine-TKG-git package
• Rebase all of my changes to Wine-TKG build scripts
• Drop anything that has been merged into Wine
• Rebase/Rework all userpatches
• look at desired patchwork that I haven't touched due to using 7.5-base
• Switch to PE builds (because I probably don't have a choice)

Anyway, this is the roadmap / end of year stuff.

[nine7nine]

I've began work on this; I've rebased 90% of my patchwork.

However, there is a big outstanding issue; I was experiencing crashes / mountmgr not working correctly... so; in order to sort out the cause - I began disabling patches and trying to just enable core NSPA stuff (ie: the most critical patchwork)... I've cropped down to 22 patches, applied to 7.22+/8.0-rc1...

I have wine booting up properly; with mountmgr working. RT code is working. I have LFH latest code working. it all compiles with winegcc. all that jazz... Next, I'll need to start pulling back in some patchwork, mainly the shmem per thread / wineserver code -- it's critically important... Anything after that may be important, but not core features... so i can chip away at it.

Anyway, once I have a few more bits pulled back in I'll push/publish a wine-NSPA-devel package - then start reintegrating the missing bits + some new bits. This will take a bit of work; but so far so good, some of the hardest bits are complete after 1 day of rebasing / playing around with my patchsets + latest wine-tkg scripts.

[nine7nine]

BAM! got some other stuff rebased along with the wineserver shared memory per thread code.

• TODO: cleanup and reorganize core patchwork, then push an initial wine-NSPA-devel package
• Then start reintegrating missing patchwork + some out-of-tree stuff that I couldn't use with 7.5 builds

[nine7nine]

WIP, But: https://github.com/nine7nine/Wine-NSPA/commit/566aa42a528574b28a2e76f579521d807668ed50

Well on the way to closing this ticket

[nine7nine]

Anything left to rebase on Wine-8.0 is trivial, at best... So I will close this ticket.

• However, I would not say that Wine-NSPA-8.0 is in a usuable state, due to upstream problems... Winelib apps like Yabridge have been somewhat broken since Wine-7.21. That's a big issue

• On top of this; Wine-NSPA-8.0 (and Wine-8.0 in general) has some performance / instability issues. It's just not there yet... but I will keep my eye on it / rebuild every couple of weeks...

Wine-NSPA-7.5 is pretty solid for my use. Once, Wine-8.0 has stabilized I'll consider moving over - but for now, I still may keep patching 7.5 builds, picking up various fixes, improvements, etc.