On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Avery Pennarun <apenw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In either case, you probably want to bundle the Wine runtime >> with the app rather than trying to run against whatever Wine >> the user has. > > I guess this is because wine is such a moving target? It seems a > shame to bundle a copy of wine with every single app, although I can > definitely see how commercial products would want to do that to > improve repeatability. One would hope that all the automated testing > wine is doing lately would reduce the need for this kind of thing > eventually.
Commercial apps should continue bundling their own wine no matter what we do, I think. It'll be a while before they can count on everyone already having a wine installed that can handle their app. And security concerns might prevent wine from being installed by default on some distros.
