New winetricks 20080704: added firefox3, kde verbs (and a whole lot of other stuff)

[Zachary Goldberg]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Zachary Goldberg <zgs at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>> I in no way mean to second guess your work but I checked out the diff
>> for the most recent commit for how winetricks handled FF3.  It seems
>> all it does is download it and install it, no "tricks".  Do we want
>> winetricks to become a generic application installer?  I thoughts its
>> main purpose was to perform some non-obvious tricks to get difficult
>> things to install.
>
> I suggested it to Dan and added it because winetricks is supposed to
> be a developers tool and I needed it for a development project. Just
> going to getfirefox.com on linux auto detects your platform and of
> course I did not want Linux but the windows builds. I thought it might
> be a of use if others need win32 firefox for testing, development,
> etc.
>
> --
> Steven Edwards
>
> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
> that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
>

Aha!  I guess in this case simply downloading FF3 for windows is
actually a "trick".

-Zach