https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56112
Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru --- (In reply to Cedric from comment #2)
Avoiding the question of opt-in or opt-out, maybe it's a good first step to print a warning if a user starts a program with the full path like this:
wine ~/path/to/appname.exe
"Starting programs with their full path is unsupported. If the program fails, first cd to ~/path/to and then run wine appname.exe"
Starting a program using full path is perfectly supported and works as intended. As Fabian mentioned Windows behaviour is exactly the same regarding current working directory. It's the user's responsibility to actually understand the consequences. Wine User's Guide even has an answer to this question: https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User%27s_Guide#How_to_run_Windows_programs_from...