https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43733
--- Comment #7 from Nikolay Sivov bunglehead@gmail.com --- (In reply to Louis Lenders from comment #4)
Created attachment 59721 [details] sad hack
I guess this is duplicate of bug 42497 then (NOTOURBUG).
This won`t be fixed in wine.
Maybe wine-staging accepts/could provide a workaround to get this running (as there`s already a ``hide wine-version`` option there)?
There's at least two separate cases. If application detects Wine and applies a workaround in a broken way, that doesn't work anymore in newer Wine versions, that's one thing. In this case anyone interested in running it should contact developer for updates, or persuade them to actually report bugs. If it's not possible users can just have separate Wine installation that works for this application.
Another thing is when application detects Wine and refuses to run just because it's Wine. If it was a developer intention I don't think we should intervene at all, but instead respect developer's decision and let it crash/fail as it's meant to.
In any case adding workarounds in Wine for such applications is a bad idea, and hiding wine version export is an example of that.