Whisky is no longer actively maintained

Summary

note Whisky is no longer actively maintained. WhiskyWine will no longer be receiving any further updates. We will not be upgrading to Wine 8+, and fixes for specific apps and games, like Steam will not be produced. Occasional updates may still come if macOS fundamentally breaks the main app, like it did in 15.4. If Whisky is no longer cutting it for your needs, buy CrossOver. A lot of people are confused on CrossOver's pricing: It's not a subscription it's a license. You can continue to use the version you purchased forever. If you don't need to upgrade, you don't have to. It costs less to upgrade your license to a new version than it does to buy a license upfront. So you will not be paying $74 every year. There are frequent sales and discount codes available if you wait. I have received many questions on this decision, but it continues to be asked, so I figured it was time to update both the repository and the website to explicitly state this. 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 projects that actually has sizeable funding behind...