wine users - Mar 2011 - New winetricks 20110311b: winetricks is dead, long live wine

winetricks-20110311b is now released.

Changes since winetricks-20110123
(for anyone who has not been using the alpha versions):
- manages multiple wineprefixes
- apps are now installed into separate wineprefixes by default
- gui now split into separate pages for games, benchmarks, apps, dlls, fonts
- gui now shows approximate disk requirement and install times
- gui now lets you pick silent installation mode
- apps that are broken (e.g. have drm that wine can't handle) are
now hidden by default, gui has a button to reveal them
- 70 games added, including Dragon Age II demo, Starcraft II demo,
Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 2 demo
- many updates and bugfixes

Changes since winetricks-alpha-20110310:
- mdac25, mdac27 removed, as downloads no longer available
- mdac28: updated to sp1
- sizes/times in gui updated.  (Most show download + install time; a
future release will show just install time.)

For bug tracker, mailing lists, and wiki, see
 http://winetricks.org

Download url:
 http://winetricks.org/winetricks

So winetricks is now becoming a tool like POL, except officially supported?
Interesting direction... I'll give it a shot soon. :)

perryh wrote:
> 
> What I've seen here recently is not quite that severe.  Paraphrased:
> 
> Bugs and appdb ratings are to be based on a clean wineprefix
> without any winetricks*, but if the app runs better or the bug
> goes away with winetricks it is permissible to mention that
> in the comments.
> .
Mentioning in a bug report that a native dll solves a problem is not the same as
filing a bug based on use of native dlls and/or patched Wine without verifying
that the problem also exists in plain Wine.