On 03/06/2011 10:53 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
Do you think people just load dlls at random, and then complain when they break things?
Reading forum indicates lots do. Most people still think that if they use more native dlls Wine will work better.
You may have a point there, but increasingly, users don't play around with individual DLLs, they expect canned recipes for whole games, so maybe fewer people will try it than you think.
That's why users use windows. They still think it can do everything as-is...
Would it help if I put a warning on the verb?
I think it's a good idea to warn them about consequences of using native dinput.
Or do you think that having it at all is a bad idea? If so, you probably think that about a lot of winetricks verbs.
Not really. If users want to experiment with stuff - it's up to them. Wine is OSS after all. If some one wants to shoot themselves in a foot we can show 100 different ways to do it. But they still have to pull the trigger.
Are there others in particular that you have seen cause grief?
Mostly complete DX. Users install that and expect Wine to have flawless d3d, including Intel/ATI GPUs.
Vitaliy