On Tuesday 24 February 2009 6:01:53 pm Marcel Partap wrote:
Actually, nowadays there are most sophisticated technical solutions which mount on a single click. No warning, no options.
There are options. Whether or not said options are pre-configured sanely is another question; but that's up to the distributor. And it wouldn't be the first time distributions have made questionable decisions that have given grief to Wine.
(or the CD was made wrong).
uuhhm f.e. ISO9660 right?
I have an ISO9660 disc, and the files on it show +x...
while i agree logically EXE files _should_ be flagged x aswell in practice requiring the flag ties wine's functionability to close to the randomness that is the user's choice of distrobution and its default mount options. Starting to require +x from the next release on is sure to break a lot of those systems.
What would it break? A properly mounted CD should have +x on the exe's if you're trying to run them, and a downloaded installer can be given +x simple enough. And as mentioned before, Wine does a very good job of making sure installed programs get +x.