gecko download not robust?

[Scott Ritchie]

Austin English wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2008 5:17 PM, marco <marco at mandrivaclub.nl> wrote:
>>> Hmm.  gecko download hung for me once.  I saw
>>> fixme:urlmon:ProtocolStream_Read Read failed: 800c0008
>>> in the log, which makes me wonder if our download code
>>> doesn't handle transient network errors well.
>>>
>>> Time to get rid of the download, and just bundle gecko outright, I say...
>> I make the mandriva rpms for wine.
>> This would make the rpms 30% bigger.
>> And you would download the same gecko binary over and over again with
>> every new version.
>>
>> But if that is not a problem than it can be easily done.
>>
>>
> 
> Why not have package maintainers package gecko like most do
> development files. So you could have for example on ubuntu:
> $ sudo apt-get install wine wine-dev wine-gecko
> 
> Where wine-gecko wouldn't have to be upgraded very often.
> 
> -Austin
> 
> 

This would be ideal, however last I heard gecko didn't compile properly
in mingw.  Is this no longer the case?  Can we build it on Ubuntu?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie