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@winehq.org ReportedBy: djtm@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).