On November 21, 2002 06:05 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Actually it's a bit more complicated because wineapploader expects a normal Wine installation, not to run inside the source tree. But I'm
I know, but it can be modified to support running out of the tree without loss of functionality.
not convinced we should really go out of our way to support running inside the source tree; IMO we should encourage people to install Wine properly before building Winelib apps.
If Wine was a mature, stable project, I'd agree with you. But it's not. The ability to make a small change in Wine, go back to the Winelib app, and test it, is invaluable. I would have simply given up debugging PuTTY f I had to go through a wine install for every little test and experiment I was making.
But beyond that, the audience for these changes are *Windows* developers. These guys know Win32, and it's probably easier for them to fix a small header problem and submit a patch, rather then complain on wine-devel. These are exactly the guys we want experimenting with Wine to get their apps to work, and for this sort of thing, you have to work out of the tree. I know I always do, I'd waste way too much time to do an install every single time.