Emulate win98 by default

Mike Hearn mike at theoretic.com
Tue Oct 21 09:44:40 CDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:01, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> 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).

Oops, I forgot that Wine has autodetection magic for this.

> 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).

Well, where is this code? I have no idea even how apps are supposed to
get the version, except I know there are many different ways to do it.

> 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 ;)

Yes, it's rather non-obvious




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