Opensolaris Support

[Matthew]

Hi,

What are the possibilities for packaging Picasa for Opensolaris? I'm
running Opensolaris 2009.06 and have tried running the picasa3-
setup.exe with wine (version 1.0.1), but it seems to not do anything
(except chew CPU and memory)...

If it were open source software I'd probably attempt to create a
package for it myself (it's not that dissimilar to the process for
Fedora I think), but since it's binary-only, it's not really an
option. Do the folks at Google fancy giving it a go?

Any other tips for getting it running would be appreciated. It would
fill a rather large hole in the Opensolaris desktop if it could be
done, as there is no modern photo management software readily
available for it yet (KDE isn't officially packaged, so no DigiKam,
and neither is Mono, so no F-Spot). Picasa is better than both of them
anyway in my opinion.

Cheers,
Matt

[leiz]

Google just packages Picasa for Windows plus Wine with some tweaks to
make it all work better. If the Picasa Windows executables does not
run on OpenSolaris with Wine, then what you need is to get better Wine
support for OpenSolaris. I'd start by trying again with Wine 1.1.24,
and if that does not work, file bugs with Wine.

[Matthew]

Well, you were partly right...

I was using the latest stable release of Wine, which I assumed would
be good enough since I know people had Picasa running on Wine versions
prior to v1.0. I searched and found a version 1.1.7 version of Wine
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpkgopensolaris/files/), which
(mostly) runs Picasa 3, so my assumption was obviously wrong.

What I would like to do is create a package for Picasa on Opensolaris
that is equivalent to the one available for Ubuntu, for example. But
to do that I need to know what version of wine Google used, what
"tweaks" they applied, and how they bundle it all up together. I'm
guessing that that information is not in the public domain though?

[DanKegel]

On Jul 13, 5:27 am, Matthew <saturnret...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I searched and found a version 1.1.7 version of Wine
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpkgopensolaris/files/), which
> (mostly) runs Picasa 3, so my assumption was obviously wrong.

1.1.7 is still quite old.
I wonder if Codeweavers Crossover has a newer build; see
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/unsupported/?t=21;msg=50476

> What I would like to do is create a package for Picasa on Opensolaris
> that is equivalent to the one available for Ubuntu, for example. But
> to do that I need to know what version of wine Google used, what
> "tweaks" they applied, and how they bundle it all up together. I'm
> guessing that that information is not in the public domain though?

Our wine tree ought to be available. Lei/Michael, got a URL?
I don't think there's that much interesting in it, though.
And the scripts to package it all up together are awful OS-specific,
so they wouldn't help you too much.
Really the key is a good OpenSolaris build of plain old Wine,
and that probably requires a recent wine and might require
some more porting, who knows.
- Dan