Loadorder should check library name, not path
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com
Tue May 21 15:45:20 CDT 2002
Uwe Bonnes <bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
> There are two cases:
> - <windows/system> is populated with some executables. Calling them directly
> causes immediate crash
Only if windows/system is not configured as system directory. I don't
see why you'd want to do that.
> - for testing, I had comctl32.dll in the directory where the control-spy
> applications are. I took me some time to find out why even --dll
> comctr32=b still resulted in the use of native comctr32.
>
> In both cases wine violates the "principle of least surprise" in my eyes.
I agree it's a bit confusing; I've been making some changes to allow
using wildcards in there so that it's a bit easier to configure. I'm
open to other suggestions, but I don't think disabling the
functionality is the way to go.
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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com
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