Wine Gecko packaging

[Jacek Caban]

Hello,

As you probably have noticed, downloading Gecko on first use confuses
users. Now, with last week patches, there is an other way to do it,
transparent for users. MSHTML code looks for cab file in $data_dir/gecko
(that is usually /usr/share/wine/gecko). Alternatively, if you run Wine
from build dir, it looks for $build_dir/../gecko. Wine checks it both in
wineprefixcreate and, if Gecko is not installed, on first usage. It
means that if you download wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab from SourceForge and put
it in the right place, you will no longer have to care about installing
Gecko.

Now, it's time to consider Linux packages to simplify its use. In Gentoo
it may be a separate USE flag, but for other distributions that don't
support such things, we'll need a separate package. Such package will
need only one file placed in the right place, so it should be easy to do
and maintain (I don't expect versions to change often). Are Wine
packagers interested in creating Gecko packages?

Thanks,
    Jacek

[Scott Ritchie]

Jacek Caban wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As you probably have noticed, downloading Gecko on first use confuses
> users. Now, with last week patches, there is an other way to do it,
> transparent for users. MSHTML code looks for cab file in $data_dir/gecko
> (that is usually /usr/share/wine/gecko). Alternatively, if you run Wine
> from build dir, it looks for $build_dir/../gecko. Wine checks it both in
> wineprefixcreate and, if Gecko is not installed, on first usage. It
> means that if you download wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab from SourceForge and put
> it in the right place, you will no longer have to care about installing
> Gecko.
>
> Now, it's time to consider Linux packages to simplify its use. In Gentoo
> it may be a separate USE flag, but for other distributions that don't
> support such things, we'll need a separate package. Such package will
> need only one file placed in the right place, so it should be easy to do
> and maintain (I don't expect versions to change often). Are Wine
> packagers interested in creating Gecko packages?

What license is the gecko package under?  Can I just bundle it with the
Wine package and have it work out of the box?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

[Jacek Caban]

Scott Ritchie wrote:
> What license is the gecko package under?  Can I just bundle it with the
> Wine package and have it work out of the box?

It's tri-license: MPL, GPL and LGPL, so as far as I understand it, it
should be fine from license point of view (see
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL). I think it could work.

Thanks,
    Jacek

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Jacek Caban"  wrote:
> As you probably have noticed, downloading Gecko on first use confuses
> users. Now, with last week patches, there is an other way to do it,
> transparent for users. MSHTML code looks for cab file in $data_dir/gecko
> (that is usually /usr/share/wine/gecko). Alternatively, if you run Wine
> from build dir, it looks for $build_dir/../gecko. Wine checks it both in
> wineprefixcreate and, if Gecko is not installed, on first usage. It
> means that if you download wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab from SourceForge and put
> it in the right place, you will no longer have to care about installing
> Gecko.

http://source.winehq.org/winegecko.php still points to an old Gecko package
(0.0.1). Please update it.

[Jacek Caban]

Hi Dmitry,

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> http://source.winehq.org/winegecko.php still points to an old Gecko
> package
> (0.0.1). Please update it.

We can't change it due to compatibility with older Wine versions. We
encode Gecko version in URL instead, so
http://source.winehq.org/winegecko.php?v=0.1.0 will do what you want.

Jacek

[Boaz Harrosh]

----- Original Message -----
*From:* Jacek Caban 
*To:* Dmitry Timoshkov 
*CC:* [e-mail]
*Sent:* Wed, Oct 31 2007 at 21:20 +0200
*Subject:* Wine Gecko packaging
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> > http://source.winehq.org/winegecko.php still points to an old Gecko
> > package
> > (0.0.1). Please update it.
>
> We can't change it due to compatibility with older Wine versions. We
> encode Gecko version in URL instead, so
> http://source.winehq.org/winegecko.php?v=0.1.0 will do what you want.
>
> Jacek

Do you have a magic param to download the latest one available?
something like: winegecko.php?v=latest

Thanks
Boaz

[Jacek Caban]

Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> Do you have a magic param to download the latest one available?
> something like: winegecko.php?v=latest

No, we don't have, but it sounds like a good idea. It's easy to add.

Jacek