Wine-doors is an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux, Solaris or other Unix systems easier. Wine-doors is essentially a package management tool for windows software on Linux systems. Most Linux desktop users are familiar with package management style application delivery, so it made sense to apply this model to windows software.
Wine-doors works by leveraging the exquisite software, libraries and tools created over at WineHQ, there are also plans to support Cedega, cvscedega and Crossover Office.

Wine-doors is developed and styled to fit in with the GNOME desktop but is fairly portable and a user interface could be developed for KDE. As a GNOME application Wine-doors employs pygtk, glade and cairo to represent itself to the user, we also endeavour to follow the tango style guidelines for application icon artwork.
Aside from this the main goals of wine-doors are as follows;

• Replace winetools, winetricks and other hackish scripts
• Allow flexible application management
• Provide Queue processing capability
• Provide Dependency Resolution
• Provide Application Database integration
• Avoid global native overrides
• Automatically add items to the desktop menus
• Allow users to manage their windows applications with profiles and bottles

At the moment we are currently developing the 0.2 series of wine-doors, this new release has the architecture of the application dramatically. We're looking to have more robust installers and a more flexible package structure as well as a vastly improved new user interface which is more portable than ever. We're looking at getting wine-doors onto Macs and Windows PCs too with this release although they may lag behind the Linux/GNOME version.

The future of wine-doors will be driven by the application database which is currently in development, applications can be submitted and edited by a community of users which anyone can join. Karma will control how the applications are ranked and we'll deliver whatever's on the website directly to your computer. Essentially fixes can be issued quickly for specific versions of wine where things are different, hacks and tweaks can be applied as necessary and updates can be handled for all applications...