On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 01:35:43 +0100, Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel@kievinfo.com wrote:
Sunday, November 13, 2005, 5:10:38 PM, wino@piments.com wrote:
Hi,
trying to minimise the number of preinstall tools and scripts to run stuff on wine-0.9.1
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Is this fixable / worth persueing or should I just settle for advising ppl to use sidenet?
Why would any one want to use it?
The principal reason at the moment is that it is the only way I can get Dragon NS to install with anything more recent that 20050524!
Reason no.2 is that is sure as hell going to be bigger that ie5
Reaon no.3 is that MS get more dangerous and devious with every release. I apply a crude rule that earlier is likely to mean less issues where MS is concerned.
Have you read app db entry for IE6? Apparently not. Please do.
Well, actually, yes. And the manual method seems to be basically what sidenet does for me anyway(-DCOM98 install) just a lot more hassle.
I am trying to document an installation process for the appDB. I want to tidy it up to be as minimal as possbile rather than say : do this do that , select this or that option. etc.
If there are no better suggestions I will just stick with sidenet (without IE6) then a manual IE5.5 , then turn off all the built-in ole stuff that does not work then run the installer that fails to run again once it has been run once. Doc it and leave it.
It does not make wine look too together but it will at least install and run the software under a recent winecfg based wine.