[Fwd: WineTools is in need of some major house cleaning!]

[Tony Lambregts]

Joachim von Thadden wrote:

I understand the goal of WineTools and I can see both sides of this issue but 
for for some of us it really is frustrating because it makes our jobs harder.

> 
> The purpose of WineTools is not to "undermine" and also it is, was and
> will never meant to be a "pure replacement of windows". And this is
> nowhere stated.
> 
> To come to an end with this discussion I would suggest the following:
> 
> - adding a list wine-winetools for WineTools users

This would be nice but who is supposed to host the mailing list. It could be 
just a news group though.

> - adding a warning in the software and on the WineTools site that the
>   usage of the software leads to undebuggable situations for
>   developers, so no help from there can be expected

This would be good


> - changing the text in the download section according (there is already
>   a note stating to use pure wine first)

This new note is confusing still (I will submit a better patch)

> - smoothly migrating the WineTools to pure Wine with as less as
>   possible tweaking
> 


There should be a way to do this. Making this list more prominant and updating 
it when wine tools is not required would help.


http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/wt0.9jo.html

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Thanks

Tony Lambregts