Throwing in an idea (probably it was discussed before though)

[John Smith]

>This will just allow developers to hide bugs in wine and slow development 
>even further, I thing it's a bad idea.
Ahem. To say it politely - I didn't get an impression that WINE developers 
are desperately looking for unknown bugs to fix.

Situation is pretty simple. We have an application, which works Ok under 
WINE, provided that Managed=N specified (with CrossOver it works Ok 
out-of-the-box). We won't change our code to go around WINE shortcomings (we 
checked relevant portions of our code though for potential bugs and found 
nothing), but we would add some kind of hint to make life of our customers a 
little bit easier. On the other hand, if WINE team doesn't care about 
current WINE end-users (and there are lots of them, despite the fact that 
WINE is still Alpha; they just download binary RPM provided and expect their 
favorite applications to work out-of-the-box) and thinks that they should 
wait until bug-free WINE released - we don't care much either.


>From: Ivan Leo Puoti <ivanleo at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: ivanleo at gmail.com
>To: wine-devel at winehq.com
>Subject: Re: Throwing in an idea (probably it was discussed before though)
>Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:31:07 +0100
>
>John Smith wrote:
>>As a Win developer, I want to make a suggestion (sorry if it was already 
>>discussed - or if similar mechanism already exists):
>>What if some simple way will be provided for Win developers to say which 
>>options they prefer for WINE to use for their application? While it may 
>>seem to somewhat contradict to the 'big bright future' of the WINE (with 
>>all the apps running flawlessly under WINE), it would hopefully allow for 
>>immediate increase of out-of-the-box supported applications.
>>
>>For example, it could be a resource string of special format (for example, 
>>"__WINE_CONFIG_HINT: "Managed" = "N""), and multiple hints should be 
>>allowed. This hint should override system-wide settings but in turn should 
>>be overridden by per-app settings in wine config file/registry.
>
>This will just allow developers to hide bugs in wine and slow development 
>even further, I thing it's a bad idea.
>
>Ivan.
>
>

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