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

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Tue Feb 17 08:47:46 CST 2009


Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> writes:

> OK, but that leaves Office 2007 broken for the average user,
> which can't be good.   A whitelist of apps for which specific
> private DLLs are needed would solve this particular case.
> That's a hack, and against winehq policy, but
> because of the overwhelming popularity of the app,
> it's probably worth it for us to hold our noses and do that.  No?

No. Find a better way.

For instance, investigate the possibility of checking version
resources.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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