(Please keep the wine-devel CC:)
Sanket Patel wrote:
> User File Location
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung(a)yahoo.co.uk
> <mailto:hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> Sanket Patel wrote:
>
>
> hi there,
> I talk about to make wine portable.
> How I am Gonna Do That is ,
> There is a files that are related to system and integrated in to
> system while install.
> We gonna change that system files places .
> How ? that is still question but we can do By community Support.
>
> If you talk about takiinng 1/2 of system files into package , i
> think there is not really a case to happen
>
>
> Hmm, I think you are confusing 'relocatable' vs 'portable' - in any
> case, wine is already both portable (runs on many x86/x86_64-based
> unix systems, include linux, *bsd, solaris, Mac OS X), and wine is
> also relocatable to a good extent -
> you can either run wine without installing, from within the
> source(build) directory with the script provided, or you can choose
> an install location with "./configure --prefix=..."
>
> Or may be you mean the user file location (${HOME}/.wine
> (WINEPREFIX)) vs the wine binary locations (the ./configure
> --prefix=<where>)? You need to clarify what you propose.
Perhaps you did not notice, I already wrote that user file location, while
defaults to ${HOME}/.wine, is controllable by setting the WINEPREFIX environment
variable before launching wine. This machanism of allowing for parallel and
separate user files are quite actively used and maintained. WineInBottle (or
something of a similar name?) and possibly a few other "wine add-ons" does that,
actually.