IE and MSN Messenger 7.0

[Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes]

Hello,

In WIne version 0.9.14 and earlier, MSN Messenger can be installed without 
installing IE6, but starting with 0.9.15, it complains about missing IE 
unless this is installed.
I tested this is the same .wine directory (created by Wine 0.9.17); to my 
knowledge, registry keys are only created when 'wineprefixcreate' is run, so 
that means the problem must be somewhere else.
My question is: is this a known side-effect due to the ongoing work on builtin 
IE and WIne's Gecko engine, or is it a nasty regression that should be 
tracked down?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=...

Regards,

Alexander N. Sørnes