splitting out on_winver_change() and friends

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:49:39AM -0500, Steven Edwards wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2007 5:43 AM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How about rather than writing another application to do this, you make
> > winecfg take arguments on the command line so you could set something
> > like
> >
> > winecfg foo.exe --winver win98 --dll=gdiplus.dll=n
> >
> > Then all you need is a script for your known bad applications....
> 
> Actually, another way you could do it is to use inf files and store
> them in a database. We discussed something like this for the appdb.
> Using inf's would be a cleaner method than hacking winecfg to automate
> importing this data in to the registry and then everyone can use it.
> I'd suggest if you know of an application thats buggy, needs the
> version and dll information hard set, you try the inf route and submit
> it to appdb if its an application listed there.

I was thinking in doing something like this already, but you still need a
way to set winver, so it boils down to either sharing code with winecfg or
duplicating it.

I'd like to avoid duplication if possible.

-- 
Robert Millan

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