

The Wine project will accept bug reports for users of Winetricks, unlike most third-party applications. It can fully automate the install of a number of apps and games, including applying any needed workarounds. Winetricks is a script to install some basic components (typically Microsoft DLLs and fonts) and tweak settings required for some applications to run correctly under Wine.The Wine wiki maintains a page of current and obsolete third-party applications.

Consequently, many third-party applications have been created to ease the use of those applications that don't work out of the box within Wine itself. While this approach focuses Wine development on long-term compatibility, it makes it difficult for users to run applications that require workarounds.

The Wine project does not integrate such workarounds into the Wine codebase, instead preferring to focus solely on improving Wine's implementation of the Windows API. Some applications require more tweaking than simply installing the application in order to work properly, such as manually configuring Wine to use certain Windows DLLs.
