wine autorun utility

[William Knop]

> On 6/30/06, William Knop <william.knop at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Parsing a windows inf hardly belongs anywhere but wine.
>
> Actually, Troy makes that point rather well in an earlier mail:
>
>> This is not true. The existing action-on-CD-insertion programs  
>> provided by the
>> desktop environment try to detect the contents of the CD to see  
>> what they
>> should do, so they will be looking for the autorun.inf file.  
>> Additionally the
>> autorun.inf file format is designed to include specifications of  
>> different
>> commands for multiple environments, so if autorun.inf files are to be
>> respected at all it makes sense that they should also be able to  
>> start a
>> native Linux executable or shell script (discovered from an
>> [autorun.linux.i386] section, for example).
>>
>> There is nothing in this that requires or enhances the Win32 API  
>> facilities
>> that Wine seeks to provide. Only once the native Windows  
>> executable has been
>> identified as the only (or best) target for autorun would Wine become
>> involved, when the program in the desktop environment invoked Wine  
>> to run the
>> executable.

Sorry, I missed this one (mailer digest mode). Hmm... You're saying  
the autorun.inf format is os-independent? If so, I was unaware, and I  
agree that the functionality belongs elsewhere.

Will