Vitaliy Margolen schrieb:
I can't say how many people have come to #winehq with different problems that were related to winetools. From what I could see, not a single person who I talked to had winetools installed and had Wine programs working properly.
Well, it was just a few month ago when Joachim and me has reworked the winetools. It is no longer config file based, it is using the registry now. We have tested it on multiple Linux distributions and the newest release WineTools 0.9 III hasn't showed serious problems when walking through the menus as intended.
Joachim says that he has 30.000 downloads per month. That's a big number and if only one percent of the users has problems, then of course your hear of them.
And of course mostly users only report when they have problems. Can you refer these users to the Wine users mailing list? We need detailed feedback to fix remaining problems.
James, please don't see the value of winetools only from a developers view. Normal linux users don't want to test builtin dlls, they just want to get their windows apps working on linux. IMHO it's better for Wine if the users become an easy feeling of success instead of letting them fall from one pitball into another.
Thanks for the assistance of Tom and Michael.
Sven