On 7/28/07, Sanghyeon Seo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is getting off-topic, but recent versions of Wine has its own > implementation of msiexec with compatible commandline.
Good point! And while the generalized topic of exploding an MSI on Unix* is really off-topic for even this list (and as such its a conversation we should probably not continue past this), it does seem worth changing the subject line to ensure ease of locating this information in the future. In summary: Apparently msiexec can be run via Wine, and in this regard the following commandline sequence should allow you to gain access to .NET assemblies contained inside of an MSI without actually installing the application associated with an MSI. In this example this will explode the AnkhSVN[1] assemblies (which can then be accessed via IronPython, enabling interop with SVN repositories as a result) into the C:\AnkhSVN on Windows. I can only assume that changing this to something like "/home/<your_user_account>/ankhsvn" should work just as well using Wine+msiexec** msiexec /a AnkhSetup-1.0.1.2736-Final.msi TARGETDIR="C:\AnkhSVN" /qn ** Please make sure you fully understand and agree to the various licensing issues involved with using Microsoft Windows Win32 binaries via Wine. Not that this isn't obvious, but its important to make clear the fact that regardless of the fact that IronPython is open source and liberally licensed, the Windows binaries are not. [1] http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/ -- /M:D M. David Peterson http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155
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