[wine] Re: Fw: [Mono-list] System.Windows.Forms plans.

[David Lee Lambert]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:48:57PM +0800, Jonathan Wilson wrote:

> Bascily, there should be 3 sorts of APIs exported in WINE.
...
> and 3.external WINE apis. There should be a limited set of special APIs 
> which are made available to enable projects like mono and others wanting to 
> interact with win32 code and/or the windows API implementation in WINE. 
> These should be specificly documented and made stable (as in, we wont 
> changer the prototype and we wont change the basic idea of what these 
> functions do).

In other words,  what Wine needs is not so much a stable API as a stable 
meta-API to determine what is actually supported.

> For example, ...

> If these were made stable, then apps that use them could be gauranteed that 
> things wont break. Then, the only thing they need versioning for is to 
> identify if a certain windows API is present or not. If it is, 
> WineGetProcAddress (or whatever it is) will return an appropriate address. 
> If its not, it would return an arror and you could work around it. (which 
> may mean prompting the user to upgrade WINE).

The smaller said native-interaction API is,  the easier it will be to 
keep stable.  

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