[Bug 46226] [IDEA] Split wine in multiple libraries for use in container formats

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46226

--- Comment #4 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Olivier F. R. Dierick from comment #3)
> (In reply to Austin English from comment #2)
> > (In reply to Olivier F. R. Dierick from comment #1)
> > > App developers/packagers should NEVER package wine with their app but
> > > provide instructions or automate the installation of the wine package from
> > > its repository (official or custom).
> > 
> > I don't think that's true at all. If a developer wants to ship a version of
> > wine that they've tested against and support, we've never discouraged that.
> 
> I'm talking about bundling Wine with the Windows app in a single package.
> If the user wants to use another wine version, he should have the choice to
> not download or install the version from the app vendor.
> If multiple apps are compatible with the same wine version, it should be
> downloaded and installed only once.
> Bundling Wine with the app goes against modularity, reusability, bandwidth
> and disk space usage.

Yeah, that's what Google Picasa did.

It's also the likely result is someone ports their app with winelib.

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