Phobos wrote: > > Jim wrote: > > > > Apples, oranges, and bananas. > > > > All three tackle their respective goals in very different ways, but only one of them can stand by itself on a Unix platform. :D > > > I know... after all your comment, it seems like they are not really apples, oranges and bananas, do they? : Sure they can all be used for application containment. PortableApps and Thinstall even do that as their primary goal. Although the scope of applications covered by PortableApps is a bit more limited. To a large extent that's where the similarities end. Especially where Wine is concerned. I can use a hacksaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacksaw) to open up a can of soup. However, I'd hardly call the hacksaw a can opener (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_opener). Wine is an alternative implementation of the services and APIs provided by Windows. It just happens that you can use it to contain an application. Just like it happens that you can open a can with a hacksaw. I'm just saying that they all have different implementations and as a result have different limitations. This isn't a bad thing; all three are great tools. However they are different and understanding how they differ can be useful.
