On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
Changelog: misc/options.c: OPTIONS_ParseOptions Always print out version
The recent posting about the Altere quartus installer not working seems to
^^^^^^ Alterabe caused by an old version used. The poster shows the startup and messages. If the version was printed by default, it could help debugging
Only Marcus objected, but didn't react on my remarks.
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Let me object too then.
This patch will break all scripts that use regedit to export part of the registry to stdout. It will also break all applications that run 'uninstaller --list' and then parse the output to determine what Windows applications are installed. It will also break all Winelib applications that print anything to stdout that then needs to be parsed by a script or some other program. Of course we have each of these cases in CrossOver.
Then it will break all Windows application that analyze the output of another Windows application. For instance I expect Visual C++'s nmake+cl will not work anymore (as well as other make+compiler cases). Even compiling from the Visual C++ IDE may stop working.
Finally it's a matter of what Wine is about. Wine is about transparently running Windows applications. Wine itself should be as invisible as possible, it should just get out of the way. We went out of our way (well iirc Alexandre did most of that work) to avoid having the Wine command line options interfer with the application's command line options. Printing garbage (from the Windows application point of vue) on stdout would be a step backwards.