Introducing Winesharer - so pre-alpha it doesn't even work

Posted by jhansonxi on Aug 2, 2009 2:24 PM EDT
Stubborn Tech Problem Solving; By jhansonxi
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Winesharer is my attempt to eliminate some of the file management problems inherent with Wine and the *nix filesystem hierarcy. Currently, Windows applications are installed in each user's home directory which provides security but at a cost of space - especially when the same application is installed multiple times for different users on the same system. By combining Wine with a union filesystem this problem can be eliminated. Winesharer is a collection of unfinished scripts I used to prove the feasibility of this. Now I'm passing the torch to the community so that they can burn this mess and write something that is actually usable.

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