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As some might have read on Wine-Devel, Darwine is dead for good :). The OS X port of Wine formerly known as Darwine is now Wine.

What does this change? There will be no more "Darwine" packages from me.
It would be a simple thing to rename the package to "Wine". But there are more things to consider. Winehelper, the starter App from Darwine is really dead, this is why I'm developping a new one called WineBottler.

For simpleness sake, I'd love to call the new package Wine, but it does not give justice to the fact, that it's a none Wineproject wrapper around the Wine package. Nor gives it justice to the other wine derivates like crossover or bordeaux.

So the next "Wine" Release from me will be inside "WineBottler". Maybe if we can make WineBotter really good, it could be accepted as part of Wine like the old winehelper, which would do away with the troubles of having another name for the same ;).

Mainly because of Macish simplicity I'd love to only have one Package which can be autoupdated. Distributing the bottler alongside a wine bundle like now could be another solution.

Like to hear your thoughts about it. Going to consult the list, too.

I've replaced the startup script of the Bottler with a cocoa app. This way I have more control over the wrapped app. Right now it supports the following things:

• Drag'n'Drop of file(s) on the Bottle
• the prefix of the bottle is copied to "~/Application Support/wine/prefixes" the first time it is run. This way we don't get into troubles with writing privileges in "/Applications". The prefixes can easily deleted from the prefix manager.
• the Bottle stays in the Dock once launched (allows selecting of the app)
• fast App switching to the Bottle (cmd-tab)
• fast App switching & termination of the Bottle (cmd-tab, cmd-q)

Lots of small improvements to the app like

• predefined apps sit in a .plist now, that could be maintained and hosted on the internet for rapid updates (again a shout for the appdb to offer an interface for wine front-ends)
• new Bottler window (we're still not there, but better 🙂 )
• Sparkle works from this version on (i.e. autoupdate of wine) you can manually see the rss entries of the sparkle appcast here: //www.kronenberg.org/wine/appcast.php

My mind is on:

• Status menu: Better support to display and terminate all exe's running (ps aux | grep .exe)
• replace the overlay displayed while prefix creation with the "action window" from the bottler
• finer grained feedback in the "action window"
• visual feedback when bottles are started to assure people that something is happening
• is there .otf font support in wine?

Long talk, here is the file: WineBottler_1.1.21.zip, and again, this is deepest dev work:

• it has loads of errors
• hide all previous Winehelper.app, Wine.app and WineBottler.app.
• bottles created with earyer versions are probably not going to work with this.

enjoy.
Mike

PS.
If You really need "Internet Explorer 7.0" You could give this build a try. "Internet Explorer 6.0" is not working atm.

If you want a stable release, please stay with 1.0.1

//www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

For Intel Macs with Tiger or Leopard.
Comes with all needed libraries, bins and TRiX.

enjoy

put-up or shut-up 😀

I had my troubles with winehelper lately. And I had my own ideas of what a wine wrapper could look like on OS X 🙂 . So I made my little list. I did a rather quick (and dirty) programming of it to test the features and gain some look and touch experience of the different features I would like in a wrapper app for wine.

I'd like to give the cracks out there a testride on it. IF YOU JUST NEED WINE, STAY FAR AWAY FROM IT! It' still VERY buggy.

What are the main changes/features?

• the app sits in the status bar
• support for .app bottles (windows applications & prefix wrapped inside an .app)
• easy managing of different prefixes (searched by spotlight)
• fast access to winefile, regedit, winecfg inside every prefix
• sparcle updates
• support for .bat files
• no unnecessary windows on screen
• mac specific registry entries (coreaudio, antialiasing, symlinking of OS X fonts)

Wine_1_1_20.zip

Here is the current state of things:

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Implemented features
 
- StatusMenu
	- Icon
	- current prefix
		- start WineFile
		- start RegEdit
		- start WineCfg
		- show winetricks
	- running exes
		- show name of exes
		- kill running exes
	- options
		- show Prefix Manager
		- show Bottler
		- show Preferences..
		- show Wine.log
	- show Quit Dialog
 
- Task
	- start exe
	- enable Wine.log
 
- Prefix Manager
	- remember on or offscreen at start
	- stay on top of all windows
	- check for obsolete prefixes
	- search with Spotlight
		- for system.reg in visible folders
		- for selfcontained .app prefixes
		- reload button for search
	- search for ~/.wine prefix
	- create new prefixes
		- show overlay during creation of new prefix
		- add registry entries for coreaudio and antialiasing
		- add an icon
	- remove prefixes
	- show prefixes in the Finder
 
- Winetricks
 
- Bottler
	- create predefined apps
		- predefined apps
			- Internet Explorer 6.0
			- Internet Explorer 7.0
			- Filzip 3.06
		- standart apps
		- apps with custom script
	- create custom apps
		- select install file
		- select exe to execute
	- create Log if installation fails
 
- Preferences
	- remember on or offscreen at start
	- stay on top of all windows
	- enable/disable Wine.log
	- enable/disable Automatic updates with Sparcle
 
- Quit Dialog
	- custom dialog window on top off all other windows
	- kill all instances of wine
 
 
 
 
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TODO
- MainMenu
	- Icons for Files
		- .exe
		- .msi
		- .bat
		- .Lnk
 
- Winetricks
	- visual Winetricks
		- simple selfbuilding gui generated from winetricks
	- set winetricks_cache to application support
 
- Bottler
	- predefined apps
		- add icon
	- create custom apps
		- visual winetricks
		- add icon

enjoy

Mike

PS.
Internet Explorer 7 worked better with 1.1.19.

[update]
Workaround for installing IE7: Select "no updates" in the IE7 installer and manually copy the generated .app when ask by the IE7 installer if you would like to restart now. The IE7 installer will throw an error the moment you click that button, which triggers the wine bottler to remove the app. But the copied .app is functional. Enjoy.

[update 2]
If You try to create a custom bottle with the bottler, remove all spaces from the installers name. (txs ViRGE)