On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Phobos <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > how does the concept of "bottles" compares/differs with ... Thinstall ... > and http://portableapps.com ? Each bottle, or WINEPREFIX, is just a virtual C: drive, a windows registry, and a set of drive letter mappings. In theory one could move a WINEPREFIX around; in practice, the unix location leaks through into .lnk files (that's bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11797 ). Thinstall is that plus the machinery to make it easy to use one of those on any Windows system, all bundled up in a .exe. I'm not really sure about portableapps, haven't looked at those. But the main difference is that nobody has put the effort into making WINEPREFIXes portable between systems. Oh, wait, I think some Chinese company has done that, and made a thinstall-like thing for Linux that rolls up Wine plus a WINEPREFIX into a single linux executable. Lessee... nope, I can't recall what they're called. I think they were mentioned on wine-devel as a possible wine license violator a few years ago. (Not specops, not unified kernel, can't recall...) - Dan
