[shell32] stub for ExtractVersionResource16W

Reece Dunn msclrhd at googlemail.com
Sun May 3 07:35:57 CDT 2009


2009/5/3 Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>:
> "Stefan Leichter" <Stefan.Leichter at camline.com> wrote:
>
>>> Also you might be interested that according to
>>>
>>> http://www.geoffchappell.com/viewer.htm?doc=studies/windows/shell/shell32/h
>>> istory/names351.htm ExtractVersionResource16W is discontinued starting
>>> from
>>> Windows Vista.
>>
>> What does the second point means for wine?
>
> That means that if Microsoft has dropped that API from Vista,
> all apps that use it no more will function on Vista and newer
> Windows generation. Therefore Wine is free to drop it as well.

Not really. Wine is designed to run Windows programs on Linux, Mac,
BSD and OpenSolaris platforms. That means that if an application is
using this API, then Wine should support it.

If this is Wine making the call internally (and no applications
explicitly depend on it), then the API can be dropped from Wine as
well.

- Reece



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