On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:41 -0800, Bill Medland wrote:
I suggest as a working hypothesis that the Win95/98 ole32 does not support the REG_EXPAND_SZ. (Does the Windows 98 Registry code actually allow you to add a REG_EXPAND_SZ to the registry or doe it maybe automatically do the expansion on the way into the registry?)
I think DCOM98 is just buggy. That sort of thing works on Windows XP. Unfortunately XP DCOM doesn't work on Wine, so you have a few options:
- Help us improve builtin DCOM (yay!) - Hack the registry and manually expand the strings so MSXML is happy
If you're able to commit time to the first one then perhaps Rob and I should draw up a more detailed roadmap. Quite a few of the tasks can be done in parallel.
Of course, first we have to resolve the matter of the patch I sent earlier ...