Misha wrote:
and even my version of Windows 98 is bundled with mfc42.dll, so wine really should provide it too... [our own version, not Microsoft's.]
Well, sure. Same goes for a lot of things. But since mfc42.dll is a Visual C++ runtime file that has very liberal redistribution terms and is in fact bundled with many apps, we can get away without it for a long time. And it's not currently a showstopper as far as I can tell; I'm more interested in the bugs that keep e.g. Photoshop from running flawlessly.
So one of these days it might become a priority. Until then, it's merely important but not urgent. - Dan