Engerek01: Please forgive my ignorance but what is this exactly? I dont see any "download" button and information included looks like about a test result. I understand that it makes it possible for Galaxy to be run under wine but i dont understand what we are supposed to do to enable this.
Or it only says that you can freely use galaxy under wine without any additional download. Sorry never used wine before and just trying to understand its basic concept.
Ok, upload is a misleading term, although Wine website uses it, lets say it is that I wrote a test, ok? I am not impersonating any staff whatsoever or redistributing copyrighted software with no permission. ;P
Anyway, as dtgreene said above, this is just a test with WINE so that persons may do the same and make Galaxy work under Unix-alike OSes or point out WINE bugs through testing: these are the purposes for wine application database. In the test, I said that you need to run some winetricks (e.g. general purpose scripts for wine to make it install some Windows components) to get Galaxy work. True story is, as you may read, that there are some features I couldnt test because they are restricted to few games, like the overlay or dedicated Galaxy multiplayer.
In fact, back on topic, I think there are many things we'd better refine about Galaxy client and WINE, like test things out for games that support multiplayer or overlay (some game in The Witcher series, I guess). No one interested and able to?
Also, as far as I understood, whenever Galaxy downloads and installs game, most times it acts closely as if it were the standalone setup, downloading an archive alike the setup file, extracting it in the proper folder, some entry in the registry may be eventually written as the specific game needs, then galaxy writes some entries in the system registry acting as some sort of database of installed games (maybe there is something more, but I didnt checked thoroughly). Are we sure if is there any game whose installation is not carried on this way? It would be nice to test them, if any; of course this could be as well a game-specific issue, depending on the eventual errors we would get.
I started this topic seeing this community seems generally caring about *nix players, so I thought this people would like to manage their windows-only games through this new interface and run them with little effort: it is quite powerful for WINE standards if you run a long list winetricks, install galaxy with some games and then play through Galaxy and worry about WINE related issues never more, hope this doesnt bother. :)
