On 12/21/05, Sven Paschukat Sven.Paschukat@t-online.de wrote:
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.
I agree that Winetools has an intended audience and I think there's a place for an app like that. Heck, look at CodeWeavers and their cxsetup program.
Having said that, are there things that Winetools does that need to be moved into Wine? I'm not sure anyone has ever looked at that. Are there registry settings that belong in wine.inf? Any time a .EXE can't be run out of the box you have to question what Wine is doing wrong to prevent that.
-Brian