II work with a fellow who posts here as wrath and he turned me on to this site. My goal was simple, I stopped playing WoW over a year ago but my wife and my grandson still wanted to play.
I grabbed the code from Erytheia's post-- http://www.reaper-x.com/2009/06/30/erytheia-trinity-core-repack-release-v1-for-wow-313/ .. it was a beautiful thing. I had a 3.1.3 server fired up in a day or so. Absolutely outstanding work.
Then I decided I wanted to run the retail (3.2.2a) client ... so I put this together--
http://www.evoguild.net/ftp/lipsPack.rar
No fancy install or launch scripts .. it's just a compiled version of Mangos and the compatible DB files to make it go. I did grab some GM Island stuff but what I have looks to be old (but it works) and I included the tools to get maps, dbc, vmaps files etc. from the client as well.
I have been screwing with this less than a week so I probably cannot provide much support, the stuff in the download works for me on WinXP ... your mileage may vary ... no warranties are stated nor implied ... offer void in the State of Dementia.
I don't feel comfortable ranting about the state of this stuff yet. I have no history ... I don't give a rat's ass if Trinity Core is better than Mangos or which DB is 'right'. The one thing I will say is that everything I see so far is Blizz IP ... people can delude themselves that they are skirting the issue by not associating with a db or whatever but that is mental masturbation and ultimately bullshit. Write your own game and sell it or give it away and you have something. Create code I can download where I can login and visit Stormwind or Ironforge and you are stomping on Intellectual Property .. whether or not there are npcs there doesn't mean a damn thing.