On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:58:51AM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
David Elliott wrote:
Okay, so wine supplies the MoveFileEx function (like NT) for all versions. If you had read the archives you'd know that the chances of hell freezing over are greater than the chances of version specific behavior being added to Wine.
Is this a principle decision for wine or is this just resignation that it would be almost impossible to promise such a thing? I think this may
This is a principle decision.
Adding version checks leads to certain madness and insanity, and creates undebuggable problems.
be also a philosophical question but I think that wine tries to emulate windows. This means to me that we should emulate windows where we know how it is to be done. Of course there will be a great many places where this is not the case, but this should be considered a bug IMO. I didn't read the archives, because it's quite some text to read, so if you could be a more specific if this has already been decided on, then I would appreciate a pointer.
Apply common sense and clean implementation first.
Use version checks only when absolutely needed.
Ciao, Marcus