installation program

Brian Vincent (C) VincentB at coppercolorado.com
Sun Apr 4 10:30:19 CDT 2004


On the To Do List (c.4) is an item for having a new
graphical Wine install program.  Anyone ever looked at 
Frank Hendrickson's WineTools program?
    http://franksworld.net/winetools.html

It used to be written in some funky language, now it's 
all shell script.

Anyway, if you look at the script (wt210) you'll notice he 
uses xdialog ( http://thgodef.nerim.net/xdialog/ ) for the 
GUI.  So here's what I'm wondering..

How feasible would it be for Wine to create a new Winelib
program (say, wdialog) and use a similar concept as Frank?  
wdialog would simply replicate the functionality of xdialog. 
We could potentially fail gracefully into shell mode if Wine
can't start.  It might be a cheap and simple way to get a
GUI front-end.

Of course, all this requires sane defaults so Wine can 
actually run wdialog.

Any thoughts?

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Brian Vincent
Copper Mountain Telecom
vincentb at coppercolorado.com
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