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@@ -3,39 +3,27 @@ - *What is polecat?* polecat is wine manager -- *why?* -I used to use Lutris to manage installed Wine games but after -the lutris team had released a stable version with a program -breaking regression and the master branch was working as well -as a alpha branch I decided enough is enough and started working -on my own. - -- *Why should I use polecat instead of X* -maybe you are tired of lutris breaking like me or maybe you -just don't want to use lutris because its a bloated python -application running GTK with [CSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_decoration) - -- *Can I help?* -If you use polecat you are already more than I could ask for -but if you want to go the extra step you can go ahead and -look at the [roadmap](https://github.com/Jan200101/polecat/issues/1) and suggest or implement things +- *Why?* +I'm not satified with the quality of lutris and how its maintained. +It feels like almost every week there is a regression or other problem caused by not enough testing and sanity checking being done. +A week before I made polecat I fed up with Lutris constantly breaking on me and having to wait for a fix to land on the master branch +I looked up how lutris fetched wine and DXVK versions and implemented them in C with libcurl to download stuff, json-c to parse the API (and later a config file) and libarchive to unpack the downloaded archives for wine and DXVK. + +- *Why should I use polecat instead of XYZ?* +You probably shouldn't. +Polecat is intended to be used by power-users that know how to deal with wine willing to troubleshoot when shit goes down. + +- *What about installers/other lutris features* +lutris support is planned to be added but there is a lot to deal with that is easier to do in a higher level language like Python. ## Dependencies polecat depends on: -- pkg-config - libcurl - json-c - libarchive -- meson - -## Build instructions - -- ensure you have all [dependencies](#Dependencies) installed -- run `meson _build && ninja -C _build` for a debug build -- run `meson _build -Drelease=true && ninja -C _build` for a release build - +- cmake ### [License](LICENSE) |