porting winetricks to windows

[Dan Kegel]

Part of my http://wiki.winehq.org/UnitTestSuites effort is to
make it easy to write scripts that automate the
building of windows apps on wine or windows interchangably.

After a while of writing special purpose tool-install-scripts
that would work on either wine or windows, I realized that
I really just wanted winetricks to be my tool install script,
and that it should run on windows.   i.e. if you want firefox
on windows or wine, you should be able to do
"sh winetricks -q firefox" and have it appear.  Likewise, if
you happen to need the Windows 7 SDK for something
you're building, you should be able to say "sh winetricks -q psdkwin7"
and have it appear, no questions asked.  (Assuming
on windows that you have cygwin installed, of course.)

So I'm starting to make that happen.  Firefox works,
psdkwin7 is not quite working, and lots of verbs that
run windows apps still need their paths converted, but
it shouldn't be hard to get your favorite verb working
in both OS's now.

[Steven Edwards]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> After a while of writing special purpose tool-install-scripts
> that would work on either wine or windows, I realized that
> I really just wanted winetricks to be my tool install script,
> and that it should run on windows.   i.e. if you want firefox
> on windows or wine, you should be able to do
> "sh winetricks -q firefox" and have it appear.  Likewise, if
> you happen to need the Windows 7 SDK for something
> you're building, you should be able to say "sh winetricks -q psdkwin7"
> and have it appear, no questions asked.  (Assuming
> on windows that you have cygwin installed, of course.)

I would try to make it supported by default under msys. Cygwin has
always had a bloated POS installer and we should not need any other
unixism other than bashness. Actually, come to think of it, the best
supported platform for it would be msys-git.

[Dan Kegel]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Steven Edwards  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.
- Dan

[Ben Klein]

2009/9/20 Dan Kegel :
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Steven Edwards  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.

[Austin English]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ben Klein  wrote:
> 2009/9/20 Dan Kegel :
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Steven Edwards  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).

[Ben Klein]

2009/9/20 Austin English :
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ben Klein  wrote:
> > 2009/9/20 Dan Kegel :
> > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Steven Edwards  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).

I did suggest that it was disgusting :P