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? >> - 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 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... 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...)