I have a different but related question: why is a wine package included in the Ubuntu repositories at all?
Its 5 months old, and the winehq website not only has a package built specifically for ubuntu gutsy/whatever, but they have their own repository that will allow your install of wine to be automatically updated. I understand that much of ubuntu software is upgraded on a 6 month basis to ensure compatibility, but why include wine in that process when the wine devs are probably doing a better job? Dan PS - I'm very curious to the response, since I feel that similar criticisms can be leveled at other packages in the ubuntu repos. On Feb 11, 2008 7:49 PM, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wine uses the Gecko rendering engine for functionality in its fake > internet explorer, which is needed by a lot of applications. Wine can't > just use the system Gecko that Firefox does, however - it needs to use > the Windows version of Gecko. > > This presents a problem, since windows Gecko can't compile on Linux and > Wine can't bundle it upstream. > > Currently, Wine gets the Gecko engine the first time it needs to be used > by downloading it over the internet. This has all sorts of problems; > sometimes the download fails, sometimes the user doesn't have internet, > different users have to download it multiple times since it isn't > system-wide, and the user gets burden with all this confusion. > > > Wine does, however, support simply using a local copy of the gecko > engine rather than downloading it. All we have to do is put it in a > specific place on the filesystem. > > Ideally, Windows Gecko would be buildable under the tools we already > have in Ubuntu (Mingw), then we could make a wine-gecko package fairly > easily that just put gecko in its place. Unfortunately, that's not the > case today: the Gecko that Wine needs has to be built with Visual Studio. > > > So, what's the best way to do this? Put the file that Wine downloads > anyway into a wine-gecko package, and put that on the local filesystem? > What do we do about LGPL compliance and providing source code? > > I've opened a bug to track integration: > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/191132 > > Thanks, > Scott Ritchie > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- In science and in mind, the impossible and the hasn't-happened-yet are indistinguishable.
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