Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel@kievinfo.com writes:
I remember sending the patch for this exact thing a while back, which you of course refused under the same pretense - showing a real life app that depends on it. So if tests are not a real life app that shows a difference between Wine and windows - then why do we bother with Wine at all? At least should change the moto to "might run some apps with loads of problems and never be 100% compatible".
One for sure will find an app that in one way or another depends on undocumented windows behavior. So if a test can be written to show a difference between Wine and windows. Then this difference should be fixed in Wine.
It all comes down to where we want to spend our efforts. It's very easy to write a million last error tests, and then we'd have to spend months fixing Wine by adding save/restore of last error all over the place, for no benefit at all. Our time is much better spent fixing things that actually matter, and not making the code uglier for things that don't.