"Dimitrie O. Paun" dpaun@rogers.com writes:
If Wine was a mature, stable project, I'd agree with you. But it's not. The ability to make a small change in Wine, go back to the Winelib app, and test it, is invaluable. I would have simply given up debugging PuTTY f I had to go through a wine install for every little test and experiment I was making.
Sure, but as Wine developer it's easy for you to write a small wrapper script to run from inside the source tree. That doesn't mean we should encourage it or make that the default behavior. I think it's perfectly standard to expect that you need to install a library before building an app that uses it, all other libraries behave that way. And we are not going to stabilize our environment if nobody ever uses it the way it's intended to be used.