Whiskey project discontinued

[Matt Diamond]

Announcement by the author: Whiskey project discontinued.

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, as it did in 15.4.

Other excerpts from the announcement:

1. 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.
   
2. Whisky, in my opinion, has not been a positive on the Wine community as a whole.
   [..] Without CodeWeavers there would be no Wine on Mac.
   [..] By contrast, Whisky is based on CrossOver, but we don't produce any bespoke fixes. [..] This is not a fair trade, and continuing this parasitic relationship could easily harm CrossOver's continued profitability and the existence of Wine on Mac as a whole.
   
   TLDR; Whisky harms Wine on Mac.
   

And:

Those who know me know that I've already moved on to several other projects. Most recently, I've been helping out with porting Sonic Unleashed Recompiled to macOS and Metal. I will continue to do cool stuff in the Mac space but just not this.

(The Sonic game was news to me. Andrew Tsai covered the release of the Mac build here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s1-RO40jf8)

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Sad, but fully understandable.