porting winetricks to windows

[Ben Klein]

2009/9/20 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/9/20 Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>:
>>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I would try to make it supported by default under msys.
>>>
>>> Go for it.
>>>
>>> I'm focusing on cygwin because that's where I'm comfortable,
>>> but msys is just an old cygwin fork, so supporting both
>>> should be easy.
>>
>> I wonder if a disgusting Powershell port would not be out of the question.
>
> Winetricks depends on a lot of shell functions...a powershell port may
> be doable, if wine had an implementation of it.
>
> Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort (for now at least).

I did suggest that it was disgusting :P