GSoC'08 - Tools - Scriptable Configuration

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Fri Mar 21 11:29:22 CDT 2008


Illya wrote:
>Currently I'm working as a kind of "software consultant" in my city.
>My primary The  primary aim of work  - helping migrating from MS
>Windows platform to Linux & Open Source. Unfortunately, a great number
>of different applications were written and still heavily used in
>companies of my city for Windows. And this is a place where Wine
>makes great help.
>Need of scriptable configuration is quite critical for helping me
>quickly perform standard configuration for some apps, and even more -
>make "install packages" which will help users unfamiliar with Wine
>quickly run their software.

Can you give some examples?

This sounds kind of like the wine-robot, wine-doors, and wpkg.org
efforts.  And there might be a lot of overlap with the
automated application test idea from
http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode
- Dan



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