AppDB: Rating / Patching

[Francois Gouget]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
[...]
> > If you don't need to manually install the third-party library on a stock 
> > installation of the application's officially supported Windows platform 
> > (e.g. Wow on Windows XP), then you should not need to manually install 
> > it in Wine. If you do, then that application cannot be rated platinum.
> 
> True, but not the point I'm talking about.

Strange. It seemed spot on to me and I have not seen anything that would 
make me think otherwise so far.


> On a stock install of Windows XP, you'd have to go get the runtimes and
> install them, same as under a stock Wine prefix.

Are you sure? It's quite possible that some Windows component (IE 7, 
Messenger, a service pack, etc) installs these runtimes so that you 
would not see this issue on Windows XP (or Vista). If so the Warcraft 3 
maintainer is correct and the application cannot be rated platinum.

So maybe rather than 'stock Windows installation' I should say an 'up to 
date Windows installation with no third party software'.


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