wine users - May 2008 - New winetricks 20080522: added directx9, wmp10, mono19; lots of bug fixes, nicer gui

Winetricks, described at http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks,
is a handy tool for downloading bits and pieces that
ought to be included in Wine or in Windows apps,
but aren't yet for some reason.

Since the last time I announced it on wine-users, I've
added three new verbs:
  directx9, wmp10, and mono19
and fixed lots of bugs.

The directx9 verb is experimental.  Please try it and let me know
how well it works.  I'm not a gamer, so I'm just guessing here :-)

The wmp9 and wmp10 verbs aren't really useful; they're mostly
for folks experimenting with codecs.

A few people mentioned that the font installation
commands misbehave -- they put the fonts in c:\windows\Fonts even if
there's an existing c:\windows\fonts (lowercase) directory already.
Let me know if you run into this (and, if you know, how your fonts directory
got created).

As always, winetricks is downloadable from
http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
and change history is at
http://code.google.com/p/winezeug

Here's the change history since early April:

r50  	
Added directx9 verb
r49 	
Show package descriptions, at least with zenity.
Add mfc42 as synonym for vcrun6.
r47 	
Quote environment variables uniformly in case users do strange things
like override to directories with spaces in them.
Added little script to run all options as a trivial test.
r46 	
Remove debugging code accidentally left in.
r45 	
fixed icky cut-and-paste typo. Somehow it worked anyway.
r44 	
Let corefonts work even when user has them installed natively.
Based on a patch by Hans Leidekker.
r43 	
dotnet20 also depends on fontfix
Move most dependencies down into bottom switch statement
wsh56 now runs vcrun6 so people don't have to remember that anymore
r42 	
Updated dotnet11 for rc1. Install needed fonts automatically.
r41 	
Fonts directory typo. Fixes tahoma verb. Reported by Igor Tarasov.
Don't trust Curl to get filename right. Fixes gecko.
Quote cache directory. Reported by Ricardo Filipe.
r40 	
Update to latest mono
Remove mono11 and mono12 verbs, replace with mono19
Abort properly on network errors
r39 	
Updated xvid
r38 	
Switch to listing simpler synonyms for changing windows version
Correct description of volnum verb (it's still needed)
r37 	
Fix typo in sha1sum check that caused it to be ignored!
Update sha1sum for flash player (see comment for URL about the update)
r36 	
Much better error reporting for gui users.
r35 	
Add wmp10 and windows media codecs
r34 	
Add Windows Media Player 9 (not really usable yet; this is for the
guys implementing Quartz etc.)
r33 	
Fixed typo that disabled curl.
r32 	
Three improvements from Paul Drain:
1) better error handling options for wget
2) add the rest of ms core fonts
3) specify (currently) known good sourceforge mirrors for some files
r31 	
mdac27 needs win2k, as noted by Austin.
r28 	
Added winver=vista
r27 	
Use curl and openssl instead of wget and sha1sum if needed (e.g. on
mac), as suggested by Ryan Schmidt
Use -nd option with wget, as suggested by Hin-Tak Leung
r25  	
James suggested fixing dcom98 recipe to not crash, say, notepad.
r24 	
Show names of ms vc runtime libraries
r23 	
Fixed mono12 description, updated url

If there is anything you want me to test with DNS, let me know. So far, just
using gdiplus gets DNS running without a problem.
And if I'm not mistaken, using VCRUN6 allows the user to register the
program on-line.
Susan

Bamm wrote:
>> A few people mentioned that the font installation
>> commands misbehave -- they put the fonts in c:\windows\Fonts even if
>> there's an existing c:\windows\fonts (lowercase) directory already.
>> Let me know if you run into this (and, if you know, how your fonts
directory
>> got created).
>
> I personally rename Fonts to fonts each time
> I do a wineprefixcreate, because I am annoyed
> by the capital F where everything else is lowercase,
> but that's just me.
OK, here's a winetricks that detects this and installs the fonts
into the right place.
http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks-tmp
Does it fix 'winetricks corefonts' for you?  If it works, I'll roll
that change in.
- Dan