[pkg-wine-party] Call for testing: automatically detect wine arch and WoW64

[Austin English]

On Jan 1, 2016 8:29 AM, "Jens Reyer" <jre.winesim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/31/2015 11:46 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Jens Reyer wrote:
> >> tl;dr:
> >> WoW64 seems to work if wineserver (from the native arch) is in /usr/bin
> >> and the 32-bit wineserver is deleted.
> >> No need for other build process --with-wine64=...
> >
> > I'm pleasantly surprised that it turns out to be so simple.
>
> Believe me, me too. I hope this turns out to really work in practice,
> for now I made only limited tests.
>
> >> Should we drop the /usr/bin/wine script and link wine, wine64 and
> >> wineserver to /usr/bin/?
> >
> > Yes, please go ahead and commit that and your other suggested changes.
> >
> > I'll figure out wine/wine-development coinstallability.
>
> Will do asap.
>
>
> >> - How to handle wine64 only installations?
> >
> > This should be handled without dummy packages.
>
> ack, will think about it. Proposals welcome.
>
> Greets
> jre
>
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Re: wine64 only,  please recommend wine32 (not depend). Most 64-bit
applications ship with at least some 32-bit components, and wine64 on its
own is useless in those cases. Of course power users may know better ;).
This is on the wiki as well, fyi.
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