https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56661
--- Comment #6 from Paul Gofman pgofman@codeweavers.com --- (In reply to Dmitry Timoshkov from comment #5)
(In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #4)
I think it's fine as a regression fix, but having support for shims is better, as unfortunate as they are.
Shims is a part of Windows OS and is copyrighted material. Even if Wine has support for shims at some point how are you planning to integrate Windows shims database into Wine?
I think implementing same mechanics doesn't not necessarily assume copying Windows database, or even supporting the format (while the latter would be ideal of course because I saw some games shipping and installing own shim DB with them). Implementing that would probably mean adding compat hacks manually.