New winetricks 20110117-alpha: new verbs dxdiag, firefox4, ut3, hegemonygold_demo, dxdiagn, pngfilt; new svn repo, download url

[Dan Kegel]

Another fortnight, another winetricks.

New version 20110117-alpha adds the following new verbs:

firefox4 - beta9 of Firefox's new web browser
ut3 - the first-person shooter Unreal Tournament 3 (requires dvd)
hegemonygold_demo - the strategy game Hegemony Gold,
dxdiag - Microsoft's native dxdiag app

plus many less noticable improvements.  It should be
ready to replace classic winetricks now... let me know if
you find it lacking.

Also, to celebrate the new version (and foil domain squatters),
I've given it an easier to remember download url:
  http://winetricks.org/winetricks-alpha

and svn repository / bug tracker:
  http://winetricks.googlecode.com

(The old download url at kegel.com/wine/winetricks-alpha will
still work, they're symlinked.)

Changelog:

Dan Kegel:
Added new verbs dxdiag, dxdiagn, firefox4, pngfilt
vc2005express: switched to offline installer to make regression testing easier
ie6: make png images work (thanks to Qian Hong for the bug report)
Allow changing -q from main menu
Experimentally mention WINEPREFIX in window title to help avoid user confusion
Don't make zenity bigger than the screen, if we can help it.
Leave less cruft in wineprefix (in particular, autohotkey)
Sped up script a bit more in cygwin

Phil Blankenship:
Ported most of the remaining verbs from classic winetricks

Shannon Vanwagner:
Added new verb hegemenygold_demo

Scott Jackson:
Added new verb ut3

[Vitaliy Margolen]

On 01/17/2011 11:30 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> New version 20110117-alpha adds the following new verbs:
>
> firefox4 - beta9 of Firefox's new web browser
> ut3 - the first-person shooter Unreal Tournament 3 (requires dvd)

Isn't that exactly why we marked all other scripts like this a "third party 
unsupported tools"? If you moving the same direction, then winetricks will 
fall into the same category - if you using it, ask Dan, don't bother asking 
people on forum, filing bugs, etc.

I beg to reconsider, from a useful tool to install missing pieces winetricks 
will be yet another automated tool to break Wine.

Vitaliy.

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:33:28 -0700
Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel(a)kievinfo.com> wrote:
> Isn't that exactly why we marked all other scripts like this a "third party 
> unsupported tools"? If you moving the same direction, then winetricks will 
> fall into the same category - if you using it, ask Dan, don't bother asking 
> people on forum, filing bugs, etc.

We already treat winetricks like that. I know I'm constantly telling users to reinstall to a clean wineprefix with no winetricks. The winetricks wiki page tells users explicitly not to report bugs here if they have used winetricks to install native dlls, and has a link to winezeug to report bugs in winetricks itself. I don't see any of that changing.

That said, I do think winetricks has become bloated. JMHO.

-- 
Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net>

[Scott Ritchie]

On 01/17/2011 03:14 PM, Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:33:28 -0700
> Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel(a)kievinfo.com> wrote:
> > Isn't that exactly why we marked all other scripts like this a "third party 
> > unsupported tools"? If you moving the same direction, then winetricks will 
> > fall into the same category - if you using it, ask Dan, don't bother asking 
> > people on forum, filing bugs, etc.
>
> We already treat winetricks like that. I know I'm constantly telling users to reinstall to a clean wineprefix with no winetricks. The winetricks wiki page tells users explicitly not to report bugs here if they have used winetricks to install native dlls, and has a link to winezeug to report bugs in winetricks itself. I don't see any of that changing.
>
> That said, I do think winetricks has become bloated. JMHO.

Bloat is really just an interface problem.  It's still only a few
kilobytes of shell script.

-Scott