Bootprocedure again

[David Elliott]

On 2002.02.23 23:49 lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, David Elliott wrote:
> 
> > application.  Save yourself a lot of trouble trying to figure out where
> to
> > place a hook in wine and simply write it into a completely seperate
> > program.  You can then have wine actually run that program with a
> > CreateProcess call or similar at whatever point.  The code to do this
> > should NOT be in the wine emulators source code itself, nor do I
> believe
> > it should be linked in with it.
> 
> Well, if it is a Winelib program, it would be linked with it, sort of,
> and loaded by it, but I think that is not what you mean here, is it?

Err, by "the code to do this" I was still referring to the code that does 
the bootup procedure.  And I don't believe that it should be linked to the 
emulator.  It can and will have to be linked to winelib (thus making it a 
winelib program) but it should definitely not be linked in with the 
emulator portion of wine.  The emulator may use a CreateProcess to call it 
during startup, but I would prefer a shell script.

[SNIP]
> > distributors of Wine to implement the actual policy and only provide
> the
> > mechanism.  This is what Alexandre has been saying, and I am saying the
> > same thing.  Policy decisions do not belong in Wine, even as
> configuration
> > options when it can be helped.  If you feel you absolutely MUST have
> this
> > run every time a wine program is started or every time a wine program
> > finishes (maybe this would be better) then write a shellscript like so:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > wine "$@"
> > wine_movefiles
> >
> > This is so simple, why would you even waste your time trying to hack it
> > into the boot code for wine?
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> Right.  I like that.
> 
Yeah.. I think that this is a reasonable solution and we let the 
distributors figure it out from there.

-Dave