jan200101 / polecat

simple wine version manager

polecat

Installation

Fedora

polecat is available as a COPR repository

sudo dnf copr enable sentry/polecat
sudo dnf install polecat

Arch

polecat is available on the AUR

Dependencies

polecat depends on:

• libcurl
• json-c
• libarchive
• cmake or make

License

polecat is licensed under MIT so feel free to do what you want with it

polecat's Issues

replicate dxvk install script in C

roadmap

things to do until 0.2.0

• install wine versions into a data directory (0.1.1)
• run wine directly from polecat (0.1.2)
• untar in memory (0.1.4)
• parsing lutris scripts (0.1.4)
• create variable parser (can variables be unicode?)
• installing lutris scripts
• store downloaded content in a temporary cache directory
• manage the cache directory (cleanup, etc.)
• json configs
• add ability to install DXVK to specific wine installation

Support Bottles programs

Currently the Bottles project is working on their own program scripts/installers similar to what Lutris has been doing but a bit saner.

This could possibly add a requirement to a yaml parser if it becomes the main format it uses

replace Makefile with a CMakeLists

the existing Makefile should be replaced with a CMakeLists.txt to ease up future codebase changes

installing lutris scripts

possibily going to be replaced by #5

general functionality for searching or parsing a script may stay though it depends on how Lutris develops in the future

add helper to convert yaml into struct

a little helper function using libyaml that takes a path and returns a usable map like struct that can easily be interfaced with.

think of yaml to json but instead of json its a native C struct

Build systems

cmake is and stays the main build system but alternatives are worth considering.

Here are some I've had in mind and am capable of adding myself and supporting:

• meson
• makefile

add config files

with #5 being planned it may be more advantagous to use yaml for a config system but we'll have to see

Proton (Steam) support

Support installing various Proton versions such as the Glorious Eggroll and TKG releases

depends on #6

Certain names (whitespace?) cause failure when uninstalling

Noticed this when testing with a Proton version with the name Proton 5.XX

to go more into detail

wine versions are stored in $HOME/.local/share/polecat/wine and the whitespace in a name caused issues at one point.

I don't recall fixing this and could not reproduce it since so perhaps there was a more explicit issue somewhere