On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: [...] > > 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.
Strange. It seemed spot on to me and I have not seen anything that would make me think otherwise so far. > 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. Are you sure? It's quite possible that some Windows component (IE 7, Messenger, a service pack, etc) installs these runtimes so that you would not see this issue on Windows XP (or Vista). If so the Warcraft 3 maintainer is correct and the application cannot be rated platinum. So maybe rather than 'stock Windows installation' I should say an 'up to date Windows installation with no third party software'. -- Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ Avoid the Gates of Hell - use Linux.