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

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that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo



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