wine users - Aug 2009 - Introducing Winesharer - so pre-alpha it doesn't even work

I'm announcing it again here in case you missed the it on Linux Today and
LXer last week.

There have been questions posted here on how to do system-wide sharing of
applications under Wine in order to save drive space and simplify installation. 
It is possible and last year I started writing a bunch of scripts to make it
easier.  Basically my scripts share a Windows application between different
users on Wine by using Aufs to mount the common files in a read-only branch with
a read/write branch in each user's home directory.  The main installer
script is unfinished but the tests I did during development at the command line
indicates that the theory behind it is correct.  The installer has to do a lot
of text processing to get the Windows application menu entires (freedesktop.org
XDG files) installed for each user.  This mess was done via a bash script which
is tedious for text processing.  It needs to be reimplemented in something
usable like Python, Perl, etc.  Read the blog posting
(http://jhansonxi.blogspot.com/2009/08/introducing-winesharer-so-pre-alpha-it.html)
for more information.