2009/5/3 Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com:
"Stefan Leichter" Stefan.Leichter@camline.com wrote:
Also you might be interested that according to
http://www.geoffchappell.com/viewer.htm?doc=studies/windows/shell/shell32/h istory/names351.htm ExtractVersionResource16W is discontinued starting from Windows Vista.
What does the second point means for wine?
That means that if Microsoft has dropped that API from Vista, all apps that use it no more will function on Vista and newer Windows generation. Therefore Wine is free to drop it as well.
Not really. Wine is designed to run Windows programs on Linux, Mac, BSD and OpenSolaris platforms. That means that if an application is using this API, then Wine should support it.
If this is Wine making the call internally (and no applications explicitly depend on it), then the API can be dropped from Wine as well.
- Reece