a new trick to add to winetricks

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 15:30:41 CDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Troy Wolbrink <Troy.Wolbrink at ccci.org> wrote:
> I'm not suggesting it's a *bug* in winetricks either.  I'm saying it's a possible way to make it more robust.  Since it's known that the native msi installer doesn't work, it seems reasonable to me that you'd set the override to use the builtin msi.  This is similar to how it overrides the winver to win98 when installing mdac.  It's a known "trick" to get it to install.  How is this second guessing the user?

By that logic, winetricks would need to set most dll's to native when
installing _anything_, on the off chance that the user has overridden
the builtin dll.

-- 
-Austin



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