search path redux - if office 2007 always uses a private riched20, why does wine interpose its own global one?

[Alexandre Julliard]

Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> writes:

> See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14980
>
> Essentially, to run Office 2007, you have to set an override
> for riched20.  Since Office installs a new, spiffier version
> of riched20 in its own private directory, and expects to
> find it there, isn't it a bug that we don't let it have it?

There's no guarantee that using the private version would help. In some
cases it does, in other cases it makes things worse. So defaulting to
builtin is preferable, this way at least when it doesn't work we have a
chance of fixing it.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org