On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 06:34:14PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > [...] >> What about apps that fail to include a necessary third-party library?
>> If I understand the AppDB comments and followed the IRC discussion >> correctly, Warcraft 3's latest patch (1.22) was built with a newer >> Visual Studio and so requires new Visual C runtimes, while previous >> versions did not. And the patcher doesn't install these runtimes. > If you don't need to manually install the third-party library on a stock > installation of the application's officially supported Windows platform > (e.g. Wow on Windows XP), then you should not need to manually install > it in Wine. If you do, then that application cannot be rated platinum. True, but not the point I'm talking about. On a stock install of Windows XP, you'd have to go get the runtimes and install them, same as under a stock Wine prefix. On a well-used Windows XP install, you most likely already have the Visual Studio 7 runtimes installed, so won't notice the flaw in the installer. Same as under a well-used Wine prefix. To my mind, this shouldn't prevent the application being rated platinum. The maintainer of Warcraft 3 rather feels that until Wine implements the Visual Studio 7 runtime libraries as builtins, Warcraft 3 cannot be rated platinum. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE Very-later-year Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) paul.hamp...@pobox.com Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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