On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Steven Edwards <winehac...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Jacek, > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jacek Caban <ja...@codeweavers.com> > wrote: > > Did you read the page from the link that is on the dialog informing about > > missing Gecko? > > I've been kind of following this thread and see where Jörg is coming > from. I don't think the argument about broken wine due to missing > gecko makes much sense given the way we have other soft dependencies > that can be missing if you build Wine yourself. A good example is the > xml or opengl libraries. It's possible to have a working wine for > specific needs without this package. If we are going to require this > package for every wine install then I would argue we should not have > any other soft dependencies either. > > If a packager has not packaged Gecko or a hacker has built from source > it seems like winecfg should be invoked when a new prefix is created > rather than prompting for the download. Maybe for the general usage > case we should do it anyway. Alternatively, if we are going to have > this hook in here to satisfy this dependency during prefix creation > due to packagers not following a required guideline, maybe a little > public ridicule will force them to fix the package. Something along > the lines of 'your version of wine does not contain the gecko package, > please contact the package maintainer and inform them about this > issue' or something and let it proceed to download at least. > > > -- > Steven Edwards > > "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and > that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo > > > Jacek, How does this work off line? If Wine cant download and install gecko at wineprefix creation then Wine wont work? And if so every time you create a wineprefix your going to have to be connected and the server is going to have to be up 100% of the time or Wine wont properly create a prefix.. You could time out and move to a backup server but it still begs the question of what if the servers are down, then what? Can you please comment on this.. Tom
