[plug] transgaming, patch not accepted, 'too easy'

[John Knight]

G'day all!

I've run into an interesting turn of events in the last few days. If any of 
you have ever used winex, you'd probably know that there's the binary 
version and the free cvs version. winex is is built from wine, but with 
added features, like direct3d support, etc.

With the cvs version, the 'wineinstall' script isn't fully functional. It 
takes the script form the original wine project and adds a few bits and 
bobs. The problem is that the default entries when it asks the user to 
create directories don't work, plus it skips making a directory (for 
system32), which causes the registry to not install properly, hence not 
fully functional. In order to get winex (cvs version) to install properly, 
you must run through the script once (even though it will partly fail), 
change the fake windows path to ~/.transgaming/c_drive, then go into the fae 
windows directory, as a windows/system32 direcetory, and run the script 
again.

Confusing I know! I made a few simple changes to the script so that all the 
user has to do is hit enter at the defaults and it'll work properly, and you 
only have ot run through once (it's now fully functional). However, when I 
submitted this patch to transgaming, they rejected it on the grounds that it 
will make things too easy for cvs users.

This is interesting, as they are delibirately keeping it crippled to make it 
harder for the public. Any comments? Anyone want the patch? ;)

John

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
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