Hello, I recently posted my experimental thoughts in the playonlinux forums, but I really want to open all possible channels to get feedback for the idea to deliver a complete (for the certain windows-app optimized) wine-structure, windows app and all nessassary wrapper scripts for processing the app in a deb. This would mean that every single application(-group) brings its own fitting wine-version. The advantages would be: - Better migration of popular win apps through beeing integrated in the package-management-system. - No version incompatibility problems (despite an app-update the windows-way) - No installation barriers - Possibility to exactly match certain wine configuration for the app its delivered with - centralized updating, repositories -> software-center could be technical possible Problems might be: - Performance issues if more than one app+wine instance is running - Security issues, but might be controllable via apparmor for example Problems to deal with: - How to build a standalone-wine instance which the wineprefix for the certain application can deal with - Licensing questions at the install of an app has to be ported to preinst-scripts Whats your opinion of packaging single applications? It was the port of teamviewer for linux that inspirated me to think about this issue. I unpacked the deb an had a look on the package-structure and scripts. Here is what I found out until now: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-3536-wine_applications_as_a_deb_like_teamviewer.html Regards André
