Vit wrote:
WineBot (http://winebot.sandbox.cz) is a sort of lightweight implementation of some core thoughts, but with command line based interface and less dependencies. Both projects share some core ideas and data file formats. WineBot goals are much smaller in scope than Wine-Doors ones, going in smaller steps. The main goal is to replace obsolete and almost unmaintainable winetools project.
You've got my attention. That sounds like it fixes almost all the problems I have with Wine-doors.
Given list of manual steps required to install Oblivion http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Linux this can be automated easily ...
The problem that wine developers have with recipies like the one you cite is that most of the steps in the recipe are there to work around bugs in Wine. We would prefer to fix the bugs. For instance, the steps related to sound and winecfg should just go away, hopefully this summer. Likewise with directx and registry settings.
That said, I'm certainly in favor of helping users, as long as it's done 'right', for some hard to pin down definition of 'right'. - Dan