Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all.

Marcus Meissner meissner at suse.de
Tue Mar 28 03:58:54 CST 2006


On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:50:17AM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Segin wrote:
> >There is one reason, inarguable (if you reply to this you have a IQ of 
> >0) as to why WineTools is useless: Most of the WineTools 'magic' is in 
> >it's ~/.wine/config file, which Wine no longer uses/acknoleges, thefore, 
> >WineTools is utterly useless and has no point in existing AT ALL, PERIOD.
> >
> 
> :-) I'd think the more likely conclusion is, winetools really needs some 
> upgrading; (it seems, as long as it's hard for newbies to use wine with 
> commonly-used windows apps, there is a need for some tool to ease 
> installing them such that they can use it - in the current situation 
> there is probably still a need for such tool)

The original statement is not true, the magic done by winetools is not just
in the config file.

Ciao, Marcus



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