Austin English wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 5:17 PM, marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hmm. gecko download hung for me once. I saw >>> fixme:urlmon:ProtocolStream_Read Read failed: 800c0008 >>> in the log, which makes me wonder if our download code >>> doesn't handle transient network errors well. >>> >>> Time to get rid of the download, and just bundle gecko outright, I say... >> I make the mandriva rpms for wine. >> This would make the rpms 30% bigger. >> And you would download the same gecko binary over and over again with >> every new version. >> >> But if that is not a problem than it can be easily done. >> >> > > Why not have package maintainers package gecko like most do > development files. So you could have for example on ubuntu: > $ sudo apt-get install wine wine-dev wine-gecko > > Where wine-gecko wouldn't have to be upgraded very often. > > -Austin > >
This would be ideal, however last I heard gecko didn't compile properly in mingw. Is this no longer the case? Can we build it on Ubuntu? Thanks, Scott Ritchie
