GOUJON Alexandre ale.goujon@gmail.com wrote:
You've done great things on wine for a long time and fixed plenty of bugs (again, thanks) but ... how can you say that (the last sentence) ? I don't want to offense you, I'm no one, and I don't say that just to be mean .. but there won't be any problem until an application rely on it. And that's wine is for : provide an implementation of win32 API, mimic windows behavior (and its bugs).
Wine's aim is to run Windows applications, not to implement everything Windows has. Therefore Wine only implements things the Windows applications depend upon. There are hundreds (if not thousands) APIs, or things that differ in Wine in comparoson to Windows. That only starts to matter once there is a Windows application that doesn't run due to that. Spending time fixing differencies nobody cares about is a time loss.