[Wine] Who asking users to install native DirectX?

[Austin English]

On 4/26/08, chourmovs <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>
> vitamin wrote:
> > More and more poor clueless users getting to nowhere installing that
> stuff according to some howtos. Who are writing those? And why are they
> directing people to install it in the first place?
> >
> > The only person I've found who created that howto everyone links to -
> Tom Wickline states EXPLICITLY THAT THIS IS FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY!!! AND
> NOT TO BE USED WITH ANY REAL LIFE APPLICATION!
> >
> > Are there are somebody else who directs users to do that?
> >
> > Oh and btw all topics regarding problems after/during installing native
> DirectX on Wine will be deleted.
>
>
>
> ???
>
> Not sure to understand...
>
> Aim of nowadays 1.0 development is web and office windows app that comes
> against lambda user first aim witch is to make his windows game working,
> cause sometime it can and most of the case it's not very far
>
> Script and frontend owner listen better to users community than wine's dev
> team
> I don'tjudge that cause wine and me is not a long history but i don't
> really understand your topic
>
> beta or alpha is always better than nothing



Either way, if a user is taking what someone says is for
testing/experimental purposes only, finds it doesn't work, and expects
support for it, they obviously are mistaken and will not receive that
support. RTFM (granted, out of date...RTFF instead?)
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