porting winetricks to windows

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 21:16:49 CDT 2009


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).

-- 
-Austin



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