2009/2/17 Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org
Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 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.
Well, no, that's the nature of dlls though. There's no guarantee that if an app supplies one to override a system dll it will make anything run any "better" than the system dll.
However the app that supplies a dll most certainly expects it will get that dll, including whatever buggy behaviour it contains and may indeed rely on to work, which is why Windows lets the app hang itself with its own rope and looks there first.
-- Chris