On October 30, 2002 01:57 am, Ender wrote:
- Many apps do not work without Desktop enabled. This is far worsethan it sounds, because most newbies try managed non-desktop first. People think WINE should be able to do seemless intergration. Then when an application hangs, they think it's incompatible and give up. However in many cases the Application will work fine in Desktop mode. BAD, these apps should either be made to work... or non-desktop mode should be removed!
IMO desktop mode exists only because our integration is not very good. It should die sooner, rather than later, it's just a big hack. So we should rather focus on getting apps to work in non-desktop more, rather then resurrecting the silly desktop option.
- Getting the right set of dlloverrides and registry entries correctfor a large portion of software is irritating. [snip]
We should aim at delivering a 0.8/0.9/1.0 that does not require native DLLs to run apps. And so, there should be no need for dlloverrides...
- The amount of cross-dependency in WINE code makes it very hard fora newbie developer to try and debug a problem in an application he uses. This also means that to trace most of this inter-dependency you need to debug so many parts that the amount if debug info becomes pretty difficult to work with. So to begin with, you need a good idea of WINEs internal structure and DLL cross-calling before you even start to play with it.
That is true, but we're much better than 5 years ago. MUCH, MUCH BETTER. The DLL separation, and sticking t Win32 API have simplified Wine programming enormously, to the point where most Windows programmers can help on Wine right off the bat. The project is huge, what do you expect? :)