On 23/12/2013 14:54, Andrew Carr wrote:
> Hello Konstantin,
> 
> Thank you very much for the reply.  I understand what Wine is and why
> you can't build the installer without it.  What I don't understand is
> why the configuration tries to build it by default.

A release build needs to build the Windows installer. Failing if it
can't is intentional so a release manager knows something is wrong (we
used to have all sorts of issues with optional components that failed
silently during a release build).

> Wine is not a prerequesite in the documentation.

That can be fixed.

> Maybe the default build.properties
> should contain the skip.installer=true.

-1, for the reasons stated above.

Mark


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