I am considering writing a program for a package manager for Wine. This package manager will be Open Source and licensed under the LGPL sense it will be written using Visual Studio 2010 (in .NET Framework 2.0). It will be run within Wine, not in mono in Linux. I know there is something already out there like this (wine-doors <http://wine-doors.org>) but in my opinion it is poorly written and just isnt that good overall. My questions are: 1. Would this application be able to gain popularity 2. Would it be useful If people find it useful and most people think it would have a decent user-base then I will write it. I plan to call it WineManage if the answers to the above questions are Yes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20090606/901f74bd/attachment.htm>
I am considering writing a program for a package manager for Wine. This package manager will be Open Source and licensed under the LGPL sense it will be written using Visual Studio 2010 (in .NET Framework 2.0). It will be run within Wine, not in mono in Linux. I know there is something already out there like this (wine-doors) but in my opinion it is poorly written and just isnt that good overall. My questions are: 1. Would this application be able to gain popularity 2. Would it be useful If people find it useful and most people think it would have a decent user-base then I will write it. I plan to call it WineManage if the answers to the above questions are Yes.
Jarred Sumner wrote:> I am considering writing a program for a package manager for Wine. This > package manager will be Open Source and licensed under the LGPL sense it > will be written using Visual Studio 2010 (in .NET Framework 2.0). It will be > run within Wine, not in mono in Linux. I know there is something already out > there like this (wine-doors <http://wine-doors.org>) but in my opinion it is > poorly written and just isnt that good overall. My questions are: > > 1. Would this application be able to gain popularity > 2. Would it be useful > >+1 for an installer for Wine. Don't forget the Uninstall functions as well. Winetricks is used to install Microsoft packages, but I'm assuming that you will take this further. James McKenzie
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Jarred Sumner<jarredsumner at gmail.com> wrote:> ? ?I am considering writing a program for a package manager for Wine. This > package manager will be Open Source and licensed under the LGPL sense it > will be written using Visual Studio 2010 (in .NET Framework 2.0). It will be > run within Wine, not in mono in Linux. I know there is something already out > there like this (wine-doors <http://wine-doors.org>) but in my opinion it is > poorly written and just isnt that good overall. My questions are: > > 1. Would this application be able to gain popularity > 2. Would it be useful > > If people find it useful and most people think it would have a decent > user-base then I will write it. I plan to call it WineManage if the answers > to the above questions are Yes.Windows doesn't have this...I don't see how it would help Wine...especially if it depends on .NET. There are plenty of projects that attempted to do this, but none really lasted (PlayOnLinux is the exception). -- -Austin
I will most likely end up releasing a Wine version and a Linux version, like the version for Linux would be only to do anoying tasks that need to be done outside of Wine and vice versa for the Wine version. I plan for the Wine version also to be compatible with Windows so you can use it as a software installer from within Windows