On 3/14/07, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And then there's Wine-Doors ( http://www.wine-doors.org ), which is like Winetools with delusions of grandeur. They seem to want to reinvent apt-get for no particular reason, and as far as I can tell, they intend to have a central server from which you can download copies of e.g. Photoshop with it. This doesn't seem legal, offhand, but I can't find their mailing list archive to see if anyone has asked them about this fine point.
I think the idea with the WineDoors deployment method is kind of like what CrossOver does with rpm bottles and rpm deployment. By using RPM or Alien to convert the bottles in to apt packages, an enterprise customer can push out a preconfigured bottle to hundreds or thousands of workstations using existing package management tools. Currently Wine has no enterprise support for this except buying CrossOver. Of course it seems WineDoors would still require the third party application to be installed but at least it would be automated. -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
