[Wine] migrating windows applications by packing wine+app in a deb?
liberavia
wineforum-user at winehq.org
Fri Jun 4 18:32:04 CDT 2010
Hello,
I recently posted my experimental thoughts in the playonlinux forums, but I really want to open all possible channels to get feedback for the idea to deliver a complete (for the certain windows-app optimized) wine-structure, windows app and all nessassary wrapper scripts for processing the app in a deb.
This would mean that every single application(-group) brings its own fitting wine-version.
The advantages would be:
- Better migration of popular win apps through beeing integrated in the package-management-system.
- No version incompatibility problems (despite an app-update the windows-way)
- No installation barriers
- Possibility to exactly match certain wine configuration for the app its delivered with
- centralized updating, repositories -> software-center could be technical possible
Problems might be:
- Performance issues if more than one app+wine instance is running
- Security issues, but might be controllable via apparmor for example
Problems to deal with:
- How to build a standalone-wine instance which the wineprefix for the certain application can deal with
- Licensing questions at the install of an app has to be ported to preinst-scripts
Whats your opinion of packaging single applications?
It was the port of teamviewer for linux that inspirated me to think about this issue.
I unpacked the deb an had a look on the package-structure and scripts. Here is what I found out until now:
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-3536-wine_applications_as_a_deb_like_teamviewer.html
Regards
André
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