[Bug 42037] macOS Wine Staging.app dependencies

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42037

--- Comment #3 from Michael Müller <michael at fds-team.de> ---
The idea behind the official Wine packages is to ship a mostly unmodified
version, to make sure that no problems are introduced by third party patches or
software. On macOS this does not completely work out though as Wine is not
installed to /usr/bin/wine. In order to start Wine it is therefore necessary to
correctly set the PATH environment variable or specify the full path. This
might be a bit difficult for some users, so the packaging files for macOS
contain some scripts and an executable to launch a preconfigured Wine Terminal
through Launchpad.

I don't mind accepting patches which improve those scripts and make it easier
for people to use Wine (maybe even a minimal GUI), but shipping or installing
Winetricks is not an option. Winetricks is not part of WineHQ and most probably
never will be, due to legal reasons (some winetricks recipes install software
that require the user to own a windows license). If you have any other ideas or
improvements, you can take a look at the existing scripts [1] (mostly wrapper.m
and payload-wine/Contents/Resources/start/bin/) and open a new bug report or a
pull request at github.

[1]
https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-packaging/tree/master/macosx/wine/osx-package

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