I just want to chime in to the group and say that I've been a regular user of Wine now for close to a year now. I absolutely **LOVE** wineinstall. In fact, as a VERY newbie Linux user at the time, Wine was the very first app I installed on Linux BECAUSE of wineinstall - otherwise, I probably never would have made the move.
Wine RPMs have never properly worked for me (I run JDS R2); so, I stick with installing via the wineinstall script. I also recommend others to not use RPMs to avoid possible hassles. (Ironic isn't it?) Wineinstall just makes everything easy by automating everything -- from configuring to making to installing to creating my fake c drive & config file -- ... especially when I'm instructed to rent a video or two. ;)
Since then, I've compiled other apps with configure/ make/ make install ... yet, I find myself still using wineinstall for installing Wine from source.
Keep Wineinstall... it's vital.
Hiji
For many, wine is a stepping stone from windows to linux. It eases the relocation process. For those people, ./configure, make, and make install isn't so trivial or automatic. What they are used to is a single setup.exe like in windows, and they also want that with linux, and that is what wineinstall does. If you feel you are more comfortable with configure, make, make install etc then you should do it that way, but because there are still people who dont know that route, wineinstall still exists.
-- James Hawkins
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