On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:53:27PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
In theory then binary packagers would include them in their packages. In practice quite a lot of users either install Wine from the source, or use packages built by people who don't track Wine development (*cough* gentoo *cough*) so this wouldn't solve the problem for a lot of people.
A 'lot' is a bit of an exageration. It seems our binary packages are quite popular, please check the download stats (apprently they have been fixed as of late on SF :)). So getting our packagers to include them would be a great step forward. Also, providing a separate package for the folks that insist to build from source (under Support Files), would solve the problem for most of the other users.
What do we need in there? I would guess:
- Mozilla Active X
- fonts
A stdole32.tlb, the program Huw posted can be used to generate it (on Windows) and it only has to be done once. Of course hopefully at some point that will be moving into the build system. Until it does, we can stick it in there.
Cool, all of this should work just fine. Now we need to get someone to maintain this package...