bricscad goes native

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Tue May 25 13:39:56 CDT 2010


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In either case, you probably want to bundle the Wine runtime
>> with the app rather than trying to run against whatever Wine
>> the user has.
>
> I guess this is because wine is such a moving target?  It seems a
> shame to bundle a copy of wine with every single app, although I can
> definitely see how commercial products would want to do that to
> improve repeatability.  One would hope that all the automated testing
> wine is doing lately would reduce the need for this kind of thing
> eventually.

Commercial apps should continue bundling their own wine no matter
what we do, I think.   It'll be a while before they can count
on everyone already having a wine installed that can handle their app.
And security concerns might prevent wine from being installed by default
on some distros.



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