Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all.

Segin segin2005 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 14:11:43 CST 2006


Marcus Meissner wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:50:17AM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote:
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>>Segin wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>:-) 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)
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>The original statement is not true, the magic done by winetools is not just
>in the config file.
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>Ciao, Marcus
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I know that, which is why i was careful in choosing the word 'most' :-)
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