Whisky is no longer actively maintained

I lost interest in the project. Running it is incredibly time-consuming, and as I'm still a student and also not being paid for work on Whisky it becomes hard to justify working on it if I no longer enjoy it. Whisky, in my opinion, has not been a positive on the Wine community as a whole. My original goal for the project was for it to be 'engine' agnostic, simply serve as a frontend for Wine, and not provide a bundled version itself. That all changed when GPTK came out at WWDC. So right out of the gate, the goals of the project were pretty muddied. Developing Wine is hard. The codebase is exclusively written in C for maximum portability, but that also places a rather high barrier to entry for those looking to contribute. Not to mention the reverse engineering skills required to debug malfunctioning apps and games. A lot of incredibly talented people spend a lot of time working on it but for a project like Wine, you need people working on it full-time. Wine is one of those few projec ... Read full article.