Why isn't everyone compiling wine

Rein Klazes rklazes at xs4all.nl
Sat May 22 09:56:24 CDT 2004


On Sat, 22 May 2004 11:30:58 +0200, you wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I find myself repeating to a lot of people, the advice to *compile* 
> wine. In my opinion, at least as long as wine is alpha software, it 
> really should be configured the best way for *your* system;
> 
> It seems wine by rpm packages or other binary installs break far more 
> often than wine being custom compiled - appart from the limited support 
> wine gives, you add problems by non-optimal configuration.
> I'm not someone who says you should compile everything - I'm not running 
> gentoo - but wine isn't a stable product yet and I think you should grip 
> every stability there where you could get it - shouldn't the winehq site 
> *recommend* custom compiling? It's all automated so everyone should be 
> able to do this...

Many seem to get excellent result with the compiled packages. I don't
think you should advice such people not to use them.

Of course for debugging (wine's version is still "developers only"),
patches need to be tested, cause of regressions need to be found early
you must compile. 

Rein.
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Rein Klazes
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