Re: search path redux - if office 2007 always uses a private riched20, why does wine interpose its own global one?

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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> Dan Kegel  writes:
> > See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14980
> >
> > Essentially, to run Office 2007, you have to set an override
> > for riched20.  Since Office installs a new, spiffier version
> > of riched20 in its own private directory, and expects to
> > find it there, isn't it a bug that we don't let it have it?
>
> There's no guarantee that using the private version would help. In some
> cases it does, in other cases it makes things worse. So defaulting to
> builtin is preferable, this way at least when it doesn't work we have a
> chance of fixing it.
>
> --
> Alexandre Julliard
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What happened to 'bug for bug compatibility'?