today's git broke winetricks gecko :-(

[Jacek Caban]

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:29:51PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
>   
>> Jacek Caban skrev:
>>     
>>> Well, I hope that a side effect of installation during wineprefix
>>> creation is that it will force packagers to package gecko <g>
>>>       
>> You can't *force* the creation of packages which would likely fail to
>> meet the requirements for inclusion into Debian's main archive. Even if
>> I didn't think the package's build system is a problem, the ftpmasters
>> likely would.
>>     
>
> I btw thought of actually building wine-gecko using mingw instead of 
> just distributing the .cab. 
>
> Just did not have the time to try it in the .spec file.
>
> This is also the 1 problem I see with distro inclusion here, so far
> I just have it in my openSUSE buildservice repos.
>   

I'm afraid it won't work well ATM. We're quite not yet there with Wine 
Gecko source and build system. I hope it will be possible at some point, 
but we're far from there.


Jacek