bricscad goes native

[Scott Ritchie]

On 05/25/2010 11:39 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In either case, you probably want to bundle the Wine runtime
>>> with the app rather than trying to run against whatever Wine
>>> the user has.
>>
>> I guess this is because wine is such a moving target?  It seems a
>> shame to bundle a copy of wine with every single app, although I can
>> definitely see how commercial products would want to do that to
>> improve repeatability.  One would hope that all the automated testing
>> wine is doing lately would reduce the need for this kind of thing
>> eventually.
> 
> Commercial apps should continue bundling their own wine no matter
> what we do, I think.   It'll be a while before they can count
> on everyone already having a wine installed that can handle their app.
> And security concerns might prevent wine from being installed by default
> on some distros.
> 
> 

I believe a reasonable alternative is to communicate directly with the
distro Wine packager and have them test your app against whatever
version of Wine they plan on shipping.  That way you don't miss out on
good changes in Wine either.

In essence, you come to me with your app, have me verify the packaging
and put it in the archive (or store if it's a paid app), and have it
depend on the system Wine.  Then I check it against every Wine version
that gets into an official Ubuntu release.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie