On Friday 30 June 2006 14:52, William Knop wrote:
Um hold on a second. Clearly many developers have different ideas about what's reasonable.
Actually I don't think that's true. As far as I can see all of the *developers* participating in this thread agreed that autorun (1) is a bad idea and should not be implemented, and (2) is on the other side of the demarcation line between Wine and the desktop environment.
I would be surprised if any significant number of developers disagreed with these two points. As for the first, it reflects the difference between Windows' security model and the Unix/Linux security model (the difference being that the latter systems actually have a model deserving of the label "security"). As for the second, an end user may well not understand the distinction between Wine's role and that of the desktop environment, but a developer should. Wine is for making Windows applications (and native applications coded to the Windows API) run - I am not aware of any developer who thinks it should be a complete reimplementation of Windows.