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@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@ # polecat -- *What is polecat?* -polecat is wine manager +- *What is polecat?* +polecat is wine manager that manages, installs and downloads wine for you. +It also works with Valves Proton and just requires you to drag drop the Proton Wine into data directory as output by `polecat env` -- *Why?* +- *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. +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 config files in the future), and libarchive to unpack the downloaded archives for wine and DXVK. -- *Why should I use polecat instead of XYZ?* +- *Why should I use polecat instead of Lutris/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. +Polecat is intended to be used by power-users that know how to do things by hand and deal with them when they break. -- *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. +- *What about installers/other lutris features* +lutris support is planned and parsing of installers into an internal struct has already been added (as can be seen by invoking `polecat lutris info <installer-name>`) but it won't be here for a long time or until a large crowd of people convince me to do it faster. ## Dependencies |