Hi,
I'm afraid I don't like the naming, since it's potentially confusing (plus, it somewhat goes against established rules, "WINE + function"). What about WINEWINVER instead? I for one like it much more. Also, this doesn't take into account that we're also able to set the DOS version. So what would that be called then? WINEVER, too? ;-) WINEWINVER and WINEDOSVER is a much better choice, IMHO.
Greetings,
Andreas
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:05:47 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
I'm afraid I don't like the naming, since it's potentially confusing (plus, it somewhat goes against established rules, "WINE + function"). What about WINEWINVER instead? I for one like it much more. Also, this doesn't take into account that we're also able to set the DOS version. So what would that be called then? WINEVER, too? ;-) WINEWINVER and WINEDOSVER is a much better choice, IMHO.
Yeah I thought about that, but to be honest the only reason to have this is pure convenience - the more typing required the less convenient it is. I never, ever set the DOS version. It's always either win9x vs win2k for me, so saving a few characters seemed worth it.
But, I can change it if really wanted. Alexandre?
Mike Hearn mike@navi.cx writes:
Yeah I thought about that, but to be honest the only reason to have this is pure convenience - the more typing required the less convenient it is. I never, ever set the DOS version. It's always either win9x vs win2k for me, so saving a few characters seemed worth it.
But, I can change it if really wanted. Alexandre?
Frankly I don't think we want yet another environment variable, we have already way too many of them.
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:00:41 -0700, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Frankly I don't think we want yet another environment variable, we have already way too many of them.
What's wrong with having lots of them? They don't conflict and realistically there are a few people use a lot (WINEDEBUG, WINEDLLOVERRIDES) and the rest (WINEPREFIX, WINEDLLPATH etc) are used only occasionally or only by scripts.
thanks -mike
Mike Hearn mike@navi.cx writes:
What's wrong with having lots of them? They don't conflict and realistically there are a few people use a lot (WINEDEBUG, WINEDLLOVERRIDES) and the rest (WINEPREFIX, WINEDLLPATH etc) are used only occasionally or only by scripts.
It adds complexity, requires more documentation, it's more things that can go wrong in the user's setup, etc. This doesn't mean we can't add a new variable, but it means you have to make a convincing case that it is needed.
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Mike Hearn