Pipelight in 14.04LTS?

Kai Mast mail at kai-mast.de
Sat Dec 21 15:40:51 UTC 2013


On 12/21/2013 04:09 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> I've used Pipelight for some time now, and I've found it to be one of
> the most valuable new packages I've come across this year. It enables
> the use of the Silverlight plugin in native Ubuntu browsers.
>
> In my opinion, if this plugin could be made easily available in
> 14.04LTS without adding a PPA and so forth, I think this could be
> considered a killer-feature in 14.04LTS.
>
> Has this been up to discussion at all? What are the chances it'll make
> it into official repositories in time?

Hi,

if I see this correctly Pipelight depends on a patched version of Wine.
Will these patches be upstreamed at some point?
The compholio PPA also seems to build wine 1.7. Does it also work with
the stable branch?

Thanks,
Kai



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