[Bug 35578] Mentor Pads Free Viewer crashes on install immediately ('COMPUTERNAME' environment variable not present)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35578

--- Comment #3 from michael <415fox at gmail.com> ---
Thanks! Mentor Graphics summarily rejected my bug report saying "duh, we don't
support Linux" -- meanwhile you (In reply to comment #2)
> Hello folks,
> 
> confirming.
> 
> Actually it's not obvious from trace log, you have to debug it to see what's
> going on :)
> 
> The installer searches the process environment variables for 'COMPUTERNAME'
> and crashes badly due to crappy coding if this variable is not present.
> 
> On Windows %COMPUTERNAME% is probably always present/set.
> 
> Workaround: 
> 
> --- snip ---
> $ COMPUTERNAME=$HOSTNAME wine ./PADS9.5_Viewer_mib.exe
> --- snip ---
> 
> Regards

Thanks! Mentor Graphics summarily closed my bug report with a big green
SOLUTION icon saying "duh, we don't support Linux". Meanwhile you have solved
the problem and exposed what is clearly some very poor QA practice on their
part.

I am going to go donate to Wine. Then I'm going to tell off some poor underpaid
support engineer whose fault it definitely isn't that his company ships crappy
code.

Do you think that Wine should try to set all environment variables that Windows
sets by default? Other than that I would think this issue is resolved.

For future readers of this thread: Pads works decently under Wine but another
issue I had was this "ishellbrowser" warning and it wouldn't open a file but
instead failed silently (yay crappy code). Reading some other threads suggests
that the problem is I had Wine configured as Windows 7 for which the file
dialog implementation has some problems. Changing it to Windows XP solves that
problem.

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