Wine Package Manager

[jarred...@gmail.com]

I am considering writing a program for a package manager for Wine.
This package manager will be Open Source and licensed under the LGPL
sense it will be written using Visual Studio 2010 (in .NET Framework
2.0). It will be run within Wine, not in mono in Linux. I know there
is something already out there like this (wine-doors) but in my
opinion it is poorly written and just isnt that good overall. My
questions are:

1. Would this application be able to gain popularity
2. Would it be useful

If people find it useful and most people think it would have a decent
user-base then I will write it. I plan to call it WineManage if the
answers to the above questions are Yes.

[sdavmor]

I have no idea what would constitute a decent user-base. And I don't
think anyone gives a hoot how badly Wine Doors is written. But I think
that if you offered an alternative to Wine Doors that provided more
functionality, and was easier to use, it would be a welcome addition
to the help-you-get-Wine-running toolbox. So a probable yes on 1 and
a definite yes on 2.
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[Michael Sgier]

Actually every time I run an app. I fire up winefile and browse to
Programs. I'm happy with that...but if you could improve that?