New winetricks 20110117-alpha: new verbs dxdiag, firefox4, ut3, hegemonygold_demo, dxdiagn, pngfilt; new svn repo, download url

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Tue Jan 18 19:39:25 CST 2011


On 01/17/2011 03:14 PM, Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:33:28 -0700
> Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Isn't that exactly why we marked all other scripts like this a "third party 
>> unsupported tools"? If you moving the same direction, then winetricks will 
>> fall into the same category - if you using it, ask Dan, don't bother asking 
>> people on forum, filing bugs, etc.
>>
> 
> We already treat winetricks like that. I know I'm constantly telling users to reinstall to a clean wineprefix with no winetricks. The winetricks wiki page tells users explicitly not to report bugs here if they have used winetricks to install native dlls, and has a link to winezeug to report bugs in winetricks itself. I don't see any of that changing.
> 
> That said, I do think winetricks has become bloated. JMHO.
> 

Bloat is really just an interface problem.  It's still only a few
kilobytes of shell script.

-Scott




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