wine/ misc/registry.c documentation/samples/config

[Mike McCormack]

Boaz Harrosh wrote:

> Well! Above logic just eliminated Wine my friends. If Native dlls and 
> Registry is a set back on "Free" Wine development, than logic would 
> follow that, running native Windows applications (Wine) is a set 
> back/discouragement of Free SW development.
> 
> I'm almost sure my words will change nothing, but I must say them! (And 
> maybe they will)
> 
> Wine development as been following CodeWeavers business plan for a long 
> time, which is more than fine, but this time it broke a statuesque.

You're very quick to accuse.

This is a techical list and we are technical people, so let's have a 
technical discussion about the benefits to Wine of the change, rather 
than a mud-slinging, name calling flame fest, OK?

Firstly, the reason that the ability to specify a registry to load in 
the config file was removed, if I understand correctly, is that if 
there's no config file, then there's no place so specify a place to load 
the registry from.  There's only going to be a Wine registry, no config 
file, so the registry location will be fixed.

Secondly, Steven and I have stated that we believe that Wine would be 
better served without the ability to load the registry from an existing 
windows install.  Mike Hearn disagreed with me, and Alexandre likely 
disagrees too.

Thirdly, the description of Wine, from the front page of www.winehq.org 
is "Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free 
alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% 
non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs 
if they are available."  There's nothing about Win4Lin like 
functionality in there.

I believe we can better write software that works as a 100% 
non-Microsoft implementation by encouraging people to install software 
into Wine, report bugs, and use all builtin dlls where possible.

Feel free to disagree with me, but argue a technical argument, not an 
emotive political one.

Mike