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