Re: WineHQ should discourage the use of cracks

[Dan Kegel]

Vincent Povirk <madewokherd+d41d(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If we only based ratings on how well applications work out of the box,
> a Garbage rating would apply to any app that requires some extra step
> to run, even if the extra step is grabbing MFC42.dll and putting it in
> system32

This is a valid concern.  I think we may end up having to
deal with this by providing an easy, standard way to
install the most commonly needed, legally redistributable
dependencies.   For instance, we might bundle a couple
of key demo apps with Wine; if we choose carefully,
we can probably find a set of apps that will just happen to
install all the commonly needed redistributables.
- Dan