On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just as a general question, if all of this winetricks stuff is > required to run so many programs, and I think it is as almost nothing > I've ever wanted to run ran fine just installing it, then why isn't > whatever winetricks does part of the Wine install process? >... > I continue to feel that Wine handcuffs itself with all of these > problems. Just curious and ONLY my view as an end-user type. winetricks is needed for two kinds of things: 1) to work around bugs in Wine (e.g. gdiplus or msxml3 not good enough, missing wsh, etc.) 2) to work around bugs in Windows installers (e.g. app forgot to bundle vcrun6) For #1, the right thing for Wine to do is simply fix the bugs in Wine, rather than apply a band-aid fix. This might take a while. For #2, the right thing to do is probably for Wine to automatically install a few standard apps that come bundled with the needed runtime libraries. Feel free to contribute to either effort. - Dan
