http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/dica/Winetricks-turbinando-seu-wine-sem-dores-d... says "created by Dan Kegel, who was in a state of grace when he had this brilliant idea..." :-)
(In case anyone has forgotten, winetricks is about the sixth in a long series of front-ends that try to make it easier to install software in wine, so it was hardly my idea. But I appreciate the sentiment.) - Dan
2009/3/23 Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com:
http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/dica/Winetricks-turbinando-seu-wine-sem-dores-d... says "created by Dan Kegel, who was in a state of grace when he had this brilliant idea..." :-)
(In case anyone has forgotten, winetricks is about the sixth in a long series of front-ends that try to make it easier to install software in wine, so it was hardly my idea. But I appreciate the sentiment.)
From what I've been able to determine, you're the first one who's done
it *right*. ;)
Indeed, the other frontends I'm aware of overengineered it and/or tinkered with the prefix more than they should have. As far as I can tell, you're the first person to just write a self-contained shell script to simplify common work-arounds instead of trying to provide a framework that could install every possible app.
The "brilliant idea" you added was the notion that users just need a little help setting things up and not a program that installs their app for them.
Vincent Povirk
Vincent Povirk wrote:
Indeed, the other frontends I'm aware of overengineered it and/or tinkered with the prefix more than they should have. As far as I can tell, you're the first person to just write a self-contained shell script to simplify common work-arounds instead of trying to provide a framework that could install every possible app.
The "brilliant idea" you added was the notion that users just need a little help setting things up and not a program that installs their app for them.
Indeed. Designs such as winetools, playonlinux, and wine-doors were doomed to failure because installing an application _should_ be as simple as double clicking it. Do the workarounds once, at setup time, and from then after everything that can work will work in the same simple, expected way.
If you have to keep going back to the front end for installing every application (where it's only needed some of the time), you're slowing the process down and adding a lot of points of failure such as an obsolete install script or a no-longer needed workaround.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
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