On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Sam S. smls75@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Austin,
thank you for your reply. I'll give it another try.
Btw, I do realise that some questions of the step-by-step list I gave at the end are already (at least partially) answered in various places
- this was intended more as an outline of how a step-by-step guide
useful to users with no prior experience could be added to the wiki page. Your answeres already made the process much clearer to me...
One thing though:
- on Windows: how to properly test-run/debug the new script
By running it a few times and making sure nothing fails ;-).
So you need to run
..\tools\autohotkey\autohotkey.exe testname.ahk
and then check
C:\appinstall\testname-result.txt
correct?
Right. Or you can install AutoHotKey and just double click testname.ahk.
- on Windows: how to get all those checksums
There's not an easy way on windows, without installing cygwin. This is explained in the wiki.
It explains it for Linux, I was hoping there would be a way to get the checksums of the files generated on Windows, without copying them to Linux first... Well, too bad...
If windows supported proper scripting and bundling sha1sum.exe, it would be easier ;-).
If someone would volunteer to help with the documentation (by proofing it, making sure I didn't leave steps out, etc.), it would help greatly.
If I manage to get it working now, maybe I can help with the documantation (by providing a user's perspective)... In any case, having a step-by-step howto of the actual process (as outlined in my first email) would already be a great improvement compared to having to collect the various bits of information from all over...
Feel free to e-mail me for help in writing a test (off list).
One more thing: There should probably be a link to the AppInstall wiki page at http://www.winehq.org/contributing and maybe other places... (right now, it seems to be linked to only from the archived WWN article, which makes it not so easy to discover for users...)
Good idea.