[Wine] I need to make some comment on WineTools

[Philip V. Neves]

I just red the article on the website about winetools.  This is 
controversy is a non starter in my oppinion. I believe that something 
like winetools should be included in the wine distribution to begin 
with.  It should be something under the control of the developers 
themselves and bug reports should be added to fix any problems. Why did 
it take someone outside of the wine development team to do this. For the 
average user we don't want to have to make a gazillion changes in 
winecfg. You guys are always adding new features or making changes. I 
want to just get something going not get stopped at the door by a huge 
barrier to entry.

If the development team had such a tool it could make test releases and 
production releases. The production release would have the right 
combination of native libraries and windows DLLs installed to get things 
going.  While the test release would be used for people who want to 
test. I think this would be an excellent compromise here. This way the 
development of winetools and wine will go in the right direction to a 
final working system. 

Furthermore.... IE is a necessary part of windows now. Functionality for 
it needs to be in wine. Its not something that can be disgarded or 
ignored. Allot of applications use IEs DLL's and functionality these 
days. So its intrinsically part of the windows API.  You won't get 100% 
compatibility without the functionality it offers.