You could make it a suggested package, a la wine-dev. Including is also a possibility, but keep in mind that's several megabytes that don't change with each release (or that often) that have to be redownloaded each time. I've got high bandwith, so doesn't bother me, but a lot of people don't...
-Austin
On Feb 13, 2008 3:24 PM, marco marco@mandrivaclub.nl wrote:
Austin English wrote:
On Feb 9, 2008 5:17 PM, marco marco@mandrivaclub.nl wrote:
Hmm. gecko download hung for me once. I saw fixme:urlmon:ProtocolStream_Read Read failed: 800c0008 in the log, which makes me wonder if our download code doesn't handle transient network errors well.
Time to get rid of the download, and just bundle gecko outright, I say...
I make the mandriva rpms for wine. This would make the rpms 30% bigger. And you would download the same gecko binary over and over again with every new version.
But if that is not a problem than it can be easily done.
Why not have package maintainers package gecko like most do development files. So you could have for example on ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install wine wine-dev wine-gecko
Where wine-gecko wouldn't have to be upgraded very often.
-Austin
I looked into it. And there are some options.
I can make a separate package of gecko that I can make it a dependencie of wine. Problem is people have to know where to find it or the get stuck.
I can also make the package and make it not a dependencie on wine but the the people don't know it exist.
And I can just put it in the wine package.
I think this is the best option in this case. Its the easiest option because people only have to download en install one package.
marco