Re: Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all.

[Segin]

Kai Blin wrote: * Segin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/03/06, 21:32:29]: There is one reason, inarguable (if you reply to this you have a IQ of 0) as to why WineTools is useless: Most of the WineTools 'magic' is in it's ~/.wine/config file, which Wine no longer uses/acknoleges, thefore, WineTools is utterly useless and has no point in existing AT ALL, PERIOD. So, I seem to have an IQ of 0, but still I at least seem to be able to use a mail client. Seems like these things really are easy to use these days. Erm, no, you have a typing monkey using the mail client for you :-P I haven't used winetools in a long while, but back when I did, I could use it to run programs I couldn't run on plain wine myself. If I'm running an older system, I can still use that exact version of wine a winetools, and that program is still running. Could you explain on how that gives it "no point in existing AT ALL, PERIOD"? How? The biggest thing that makes WineTools work is it's ability to set DLLOverrides via a config file that Wine no longer acknoleges, therfore that is gone, and only a few things will work via WineTools, if at all. You can't install IE with WineTools (You can with IEs4Linux, and if you are good enough, you can merge the ies4linux wine setup into the main one without fubaring it. I did. I wouldn't suggest that regular user do this, though.) I digress, and let you know that the programs installable via it's 'database' are outdated, and some have broken URLs! Could I assume that the 2.4 Linux Kernel I'm running on my router doesn't have any point of existing, either, just because it's outdated? LOLFAIL. 2.4 is no more "older" than 2.6 in reflect that is it still in active development, and the developers will respond to commentary about it. The same cannot be said about winetools. Sheesh, if people spent as much time fixing winetools (or wine, for that matter) as they did writing emails about why winetools is bad, this discussion would be utterly useless and without a point AT ALL, PERIOD. Hey!! That's my line! Kai Segin