Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bug 6026] The Settlers: Heritage of Kings is not installable

[Bojan Antonovic]

Vitaliy Margolen schrieb:
> Hello Bojan,
>
> Thank you for opening bugs in Wine's bugzilla. It is really appreciated.
>
> All I wanted to point out is that all installer related bugs you opened
> looked identical to me with exactly the same things failing.
>
> To make a bug reproducable you have to each time remove / rename ~/.wine
> directory before trying to install anything else. This way you can
> guarantee that your Wine configuration is not contaminated by anything
> else.

Hi Vitali

First sorry for my aggressive reaction. I had a very bad day.

Yes, I'm a newbie in Wine, so I'll make such mistakes.

Back to the technical problems: I've made quite a mismatch in the 
installation of Wine and the software, mostly because I continued to 
install software partially with sudo. And also one application after the 
other. I, also as a (Java) developer, see that it's the best to clean or 
remove the Wine configurations (or at best the .wine directory) to see 
how well does Wine install on *clean* installations. This helps the 
developers to split basic implementation problems from those of 
multiple, robust, long term installation problems, which also have to be 
solved one day, but better *after* clean installations can be mastered.

What I find confusing is that the whole topic of running the 32-bit Wine 
on 64-bit machines isn't mentioned in the FAQ. Sure, such machines are 
still rare, and partially expensive. But they are the future. But there 
should be a special 64-bit topic, even for mentioning GCC bugs (even if 
they should be rare in 2006).

I will redo all tests with a *removed* .wine directory. Fortunaly, with 
an AMD X2 2.0 GHz this will work faster than with any other machine 
(multitasking will be not disturbed). Building Wine (after configure & 
make depend) with

    make -j 3

takes only 10 minutes.

I've cc-ed this e-mail to wine-bugs so that everybody sees my excuses in 
personal and in technical affairs. I apologize mostly my personal 
reaction. I hope I'll become a productive tester in the Wine community.

greetings to everybody

    Bojan