Wine download page usability problem
Austin English
austinenglish at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 11:40:08 CST 2009
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:37 AM, James Mckenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Sent: Feb 20, 2009 10:32 AM
>>To: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
>>Cc: "wine-devel at winehq.org" <wine-devel at winehq.org>
>>Subject: Re: Wine download page usability problem
>>
>>On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can we add in a line at the top saying
>>> "Stable version 1.0.1 of Wine can usually be installed
>>> just like any other Linux application using your
>>> package manager (e.g. in Ubuntu, do Applications / Add/Remove,
>>> select Wine, and click Apply Changes).
>>
>>Nitpick, but instead of 'Linux', use 'native'. FreeBSD's ports
>>contains wine, as well as NetBSD's.
>
> Please exclude MacOSX which does not include Wine and I doubt it ever will.
MacOSX doesn't have a native/builtin package manager that is used to
download and install applications. Fink/etc. come close, but A) they
aren't there by default and B) that's why the qualifier 'usually' is
there.
--
-Austin
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