README: add a note about 64-bit Wine and 32-bit apps (try 2)

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 13:08:49 CST 2015


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ Optional support libraries:
>>    to make sure to install the 32-bit versions of these libraries; see
>>    http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit for details. If you want a true
>>    64-bit Wine (or a mixed 32-bit and 64-bit Wine setup), see
>> -  http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64 for details.
>> +  http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64 for details. Note that a 64-bit Wine
>> +  build will not run 32-bit applications (which many 64-bit applications
>> +  include and rely upon) without also building 32-bit Wine.
>
> I think this should go on the mentioned wiki page instead, preferably
> with a big warning sign.
>
> --
> Alexandre Julliard
> julliard at winehq.org

Why not both? If we're redirecting everyone to the wiki we could
arguably replace the entire README with a link to
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ. I'm not opposed to putting it on the wiki,
but given how often this comes up in #winehq, I don't think putting it
in the wiki alone will make a huge amount of difference.

-- 
-Austin



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