[Bug 20804] Wine should be able to run/execute/install MSI files directly

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Mon Nov 23 09:53:34 CST 2009


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20804


Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|INVALID                     |WONTFIX




--- Comment #6 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-11-23 09:53:34 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I do believe this is an invalid bug. It doesn't make sense to expect the Wine
> loader handle non-executable files sensibly, and you can certainly do wine
> start installer.msi if you want to invoke the installer via a shell handler.

Exactly. Launching msi files directly under a dos prompt fails as well.

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