Keeping people from trying iTunes in Wine?

[Scott Ritchie]

On 09/09/2010 08:06 AM, Luke Benstead wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9 September 2010 15:53, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com
> <mailto:dank at kegel.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Scott wrote:
>     > This would be relatively simple to implement, and would even
>     > be doable with a shell script outside of Wine.  Just md5sum
>     > the .exe, compare it with a blacklist, pop the warning if so,
>     > and if not pass it to the normal Wine process.
> 
>     You'd probably want to sha1sum only the first megabyte
>     or so, since getting the checksum of a gigabyte
>     executable would really slow things down.
> 
>     And you might want to do it only for files that
>     are doubleclicked on, i.e. in the desktop integration,
>     rather than messing with the real wine.
>     - Dan
> 
> 
> I brought up a long time ago the idea of having something like this that
> checked the current rating in the appdb. So exe files are associated
> with the appdb entry and double-clicking would say something like: "This
> Windows application is rated as Bronze and may not run correctly" or
> something.
> 

This idea has come up many times, really.  In the past nothing's been
done because

1) Wine was changing fast, and so were the apps that it would work with
2) It'd be more productive to spend time on making apps work anyway (a
similar argument can be made for AppDB in general)

However this is clearly not a complete argument, as I'd say it's worth
having AppDB and getting warnings about garbage apps you're about to run
is just AppDB in a far more convenient fashion.

I agree with what Austen said about doing this in the packaging layer -
it seems like the perfect thing for a winezeug project with packagers
putting the script as a front end to Wine.  We could hit 90% with a very
primitive implementation (such as looking up a static list of bad
filenames).

Plus, we'd need someone to make the actual interface, which I believe is
another reason why it hasn't gotten done in the past.  But maybe I can
fill that gap ;)

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie