porting winetricks to windows
Steven Edwards
winehacker at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 11:49:49 CDT 2009
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> After a while of writing special purpose tool-install-scripts
> that would work on either wine or windows, I realized that
> I really just wanted winetricks to be my tool install script,
> and that it should run on windows. i.e. if you want firefox
> on windows or wine, you should be able to do
> "sh winetricks -q firefox" and have it appear. Likewise, if
> you happen to need the Windows 7 SDK for something
> you're building, you should be able to say "sh winetricks -q psdkwin7"
> and have it appear, no questions asked. (Assuming
> on windows that you have cygwin installed, of course.)
I would try to make it supported by default under msys. Cygwin has
always had a bloated POS installer and we should not need any other
unixism other than bashness. Actually, come to think of it, the best
supported platform for it would be msys-git.
--
Steven Edwards
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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