On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)winehq.org> wrote:
Essentially,
to run Office 2007, you have to set an override
for riched20. Since Office installs a new, spiffier version
of riched20 in its own private directory, and expects to
find it there, isn't it a bug that we don't let it have it?
There's no guarantee that using the private version would help. In some
cases it does, in other cases it makes things worse. So defaulting to
builtin is preferable, this way at least when it doesn't work we have a
chance of fixing it.
OK, but that leaves Office 2007 broken for the average user,
which can't be good. A whitelist of apps for which specific
private DLLs are needed would solve this particular case.
That's a hack, and against winehq policy, but
because of the overwhelming popularity of the app,
it's probably worth it for us to hold our noses and do that. No?
- Dan