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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> Date: 2009/3/29 Subject: Re: How to "bottle" applications for distribution with wine? To: Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> 2009/3/29 Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com>: > He's asking if it's possible to bundle a minimal Wine with some native > app (e.g. EVE "Linux version" which was EVE for Windows with Cedega, > and the same basic principle for the "Linux version" of the Sims > shipped with some Mandrakes). > The only thing I can think of is to calculate the maximum set of > required DLLs for the application, and only ship those, but it's > probably not worth it. It's better in general to use a system-wide > Wine, due to the general-purpose nature of Wine. Mm. Look at Picasa for Linux, which really does package pretty much a whole Wine with the app. (I just run the Windows version in my system Wine ;-) ) So it won't be smaller, but it will be a single package. Are there notes anywhere on how Picasa packages Wine? - d.
