Keeping people from trying iTunes in Wine?

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:59:32 -0700
>> Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Watching Twitter, one fairly frequently seems people trying
>>> and failing to run iTunes 10 and the like in Wine.
>>>
>>> Should we let them bash their heads against the wall like that?
>>>
>>> Maybe we should detect the top ten apps that don't work
>>> with Wine, and put up a warning dialog saying they are
>>> known not to work, and people shouldn't try.
>>> (Kind of like what Windows 7 does when you do something
>>> dangerous, e.g. try to look at the contents of drive C:.)
>>>
>>>
>> Do you really want to prevent users from ever testing these apps in new versions of Wine, or trying to find workarounds? I do a fair amount of head-bashing myself, and I would find such a message patronizing and intrusive.
>
> Agreed. Wine doesn't make efforts to babysit users for most other
> things, I don't see why this should be any different.
>
> Also consider that if such a workaround were to go into wine, that
> code may long outlive the 'affected apps', and the list would quickly
> grow out of date.
>
> I suppose if a packager wanted to do something like this for their
> distro I wouldn't complain too much, unless users started asking about
> it in #winehq/the forums. But this _should not_ go into vanilla wine.
>
> --
> -Austin
>

The dialog could suggest upgrading Wine, that would prevent the
affected app list from getting out of date.

Damjan