On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel@kievinfo.com wrote:
On 01/17/2011 11:30 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
New version 20110117-alpha adds the following new verbs:
firefox4 - beta9 of Firefox's new web browser ut3 - the first-person shooter Unreal Tournament 3 (requires dvd)
Isn't that exactly why we marked all other scripts like this a "third party unsupported tools"?
I suspect PlayOnLinux got the cold shoulder because they use old versions of wine, they use their own patches, they don't have a 'real' version control system for game scripts, and they didn't communicate with the wine community. So problem reports from PlayOnLinux users weren't very helpful for Wine developers.
Winetricks doesn't encourage users to run old or patched wine, and I'm not a stranger on wine-devel.
In fact, if we play our cards right, winetricks might actually reduce the number of clueless support requests. People have trouble following the HOWTOs in the appdb. A winetricks verb for a game should be like a perfectly automated little implementation of the HOWTO, with bug workarounds clearly marked, and skipped automatically when using new enough wine. Better still, since it's automated, we can run it nightly to make sure it doesn't break.
What concrete problems do you see with winetricks having verbs for popular games? - Dan