On Tuesday 24 February 2009 6:01:53 pm Marcel Partap wrote: > Actually, nowadays there are most sophisticated technical solutions > which mount on a single click. No warning, no options.
There are options. Whether or not said options are pre-configured sanely is another question; but that's up to the distributor. And it wouldn't be the first time distributions have made questionable decisions that have given grief to Wine. > > (or the CD was made wrong). > > uuhhm f.e. ISO9660 right? I have an ISO9660 disc, and the files on it show +x... > while i agree logically EXE files _should_ be flagged x aswell in > practice requiring the flag ties wine's functionability to close to > the randomness that is the user's choice of distrobution and its > default mount options. Starting to require +x from the next release on > is sure to break a lot of those systems. What would it break? A properly mounted CD should have +x on the exe's if you're trying to run them, and a downloaded installer can be given +x simple enough. And as mentioned before, Wine does a very good job of making sure installed programs get +x.