[Bug 15912] New: Wine GUI - Wine Installer / "Bottles" for Wine - GUI Management of Installtation with Seperate Prefix Trees

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15912

           Summary: Wine GUI - Wine Installer / "Bottles" for Wine - GUI
                    Management of Installtation with Seperate Prefix Trees
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: djtm at gmx.net


I would love to see something like a wine bottle management.
It should make it easy to install software into different "wineprefix"es.
The purpose is to ensure programs don't interfere with each other's
installation and that a completely clean uninstall is possible.

It's a workaround for a major bug and problem with Windows's missing package
management and poor installation management in general and not meant as a
workaround for bugs in wine.

I imagine it to work a bit like the current wine uninstaller, make it a wine
installer and provide an option to pour it into a fresh clean bottle. ;) I
think best would be an installation wizard.

That would make installations much more easy, clean and robust. It would also
make it easier for developers, as fresh bottles would generally be used and
thus config tweaking problems avoided.

The second gui would provide an overview list of installed software throughout
all bottles.

In a second step some options could be added to the wizard, e.g. disable
debugging, restrict directory access, etc. (a few easy options from winecfg
like desktop or window mode, sound device).


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