Emulate win98 by default

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:25:55AM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> IE setup needs this, and really, there's not much difference between
> them. I would change this in the code, but I don't know where this key
> is referenced.
> 
> Emulate win98 and DOS 6.11 by default
> 
> Index: documentation/samples/config
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/samples/config,v
> retrieving revision 1.52
> diff -u -r1.52 config
> --- documentation/samples/config        16 Oct 2003 19:09:57 -0000      1.52
> +++ documentation/samples/config        21 Oct 2003 10:19:26 -0000
> @@ -77,9 +77,9 @@
>   
>  [Version]
>  ; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win2k3,win20,win30,win31)
> -;"Windows" = "win98"
> +"Windows" = "win98"
>  ; DOS version to imitate
> -;"DOS" = "6.22"
> +"DOS" = "6.22"

Please DON'T do this.
These are FORCED, GLOBAL values, as such they are highly evil
(since that way the whole version detection mechanism gets disabled
and many programs which need other values cannot have their version
guessed properly any more).

Instead, the default fallback values in the version code should probably
be changed to refer to Win98 to make sure we do use Win98 in case we cannot
guess any value (if they are not already, but they might still be at Win95).
Note that the version code has some straw man default values which are NOT
the real defaults if you analyse the code path properly.

And if IE setup still doesn't run after having changed the default guesstimate
to Win98, tough luck: you'll have to force version Win98 manually
(or implement a smarter version detection mechanism that takes some
observations and transforms them into a Win98 version value).

And we should also indicate in the sample config file that actually setting
these will override any and all intelligent(?) version detection mechanisms...
(if only to prevent other people from attempting the same mistake as you ;)

-- 
Open Source Software: because smart people know to prefer a multitude of
Support Options to a Single Point of Failure commonly used software represents.
(who's left to sue given your average all-denying End User License Agreements,
or who to ask for support if a vendor or product decided to silently die away?)