[Bug 41624] Child processes do not inherit the Windows version from the parent process set in winecfg

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41624

--- Comment #12 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> ---
(In reply to Bruno Jesus from comment #11)
> (In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #10)
> > Is this about per-application settings? If so I'd say it works as intended.
> 
> Yes, but the main problems is:
> 
> Wine is globally configured as XP
> App A is configured as Win7
> App A spawns app B and app B gets XP instead of 7.
> 
> Since App A and its children require Win7 why not make childs inherit App A
> version?
> 
> The simplest real world example is an installer that extracts a second
> installer.

I don't think you can assume that just because app B is launched by app A it
needs the same version. There are cases where it's true, but there are many
cases where it isn't. Setting the version globally is preferable.

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