[Bug 657] Many games and applications need 'mfc42.dll' ('winetricks -q mfc42' is a workaround)

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657

--- Comment #122 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello qsniyg,

while this could work for the case of native 'pidgen' (Wine's builtin one is a
stub dll that prefers native over builtin), it will likely trigger an influx of
gazillion new bug reports. All the auto-generated stubs will cause all kinds of
user-visible crashes instead of previous mostly silent application load failure
behaviour.

Users/triagers will create new bugs per stub to request addition of
simple/semi-stubs because they don't understand that this approach can't work
for majority of the MFC applications. Additionally it will send a false signal
of hope: "hey, there is builtin MFC - let's start with implementing this and
that".

Most of the dupes linked here are not the result of 'pidgen' failures but from
real MFC apps that require a lot of MFC classes to be implemented.

You could ask maybe Wine-Staging project folks if it's possible to fly a trial
balloon with them (and see the impact) ;-) If that happens we should definately
create a new ticket, covering the addition of a stub MFC42 dll + minimal pidgen
dependency implementation (if that's just one export). This one should remain
as one-for-all meta-bug, although I would add "implementation" to the summary
to distinguish both.

My general (personal) opinion about MFC hasn't changed all the years. I
consider it a huge waste of time/valuable developer resources if someone is
really going for implementation of this legacy/obsolete technology. The Wine
project still lacks developer resources in various other areas/components which
are way more useful for the general populace.

Regards