Correct approach to deploy Wine applications

[Andreas Mohr]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:17:32PM -0700, Andriy Palamarchuk wrote:
> I'm currently working on bug 585 - "wine installation
> process should install and configure wine
> applications".
> The first part of the work is done - wine
> applications, like regedit are installed by Wine build
> process.
> 
> I wanted to ask you about correct approach to place
> these applications to deploy them.
> 
> I think that applications can be called with full
> path, with or without extention, names in different
> cases. So I'm going to change wineinstall process to
> create symbolic links in c:/windows/system32 e.g. for
> regedit:
> 
> regedit -> /usr/local/bin/wine
> regedit.so -> /usr/local/bin/regedit.so
> regedit.exe -> /usr/local/bin/wine
> regedit.exe.so -> /usr/local/bin/regedit.so
> 
> This fixes problems with full path and with using or
> not using file extention, but how to handle
> case-insensitivity?
> Regedit can be called as REGEDIT, RegEdit, Regedit,
> regedit. Now multiply this on number of extentions
> exe, EXE. This is without considering really fancy
> cases, like "ReGeDiT".
> 
> Is there a way to handle this problem?
Eh ? I thought "Filesystem" = "win95" handled this nicely ?
Unless I misunderstood something completely fundamentally fatally...

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