A step in the wrong direction, in an ocean of steps in the right direction (try 3)

Kornél Pál kornelpal at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 08:40:11 CST 2009


Remco wrote:
> A while back there was some case where a buggy Windows program would
> run in Wine, while it didn't run in any version of Windows. After Wine
> became better, the buggy program stopped working. Of course it also
> meant that a lot of other programs started working. At some point you
> have to stop making bad programs work, and implement the API as close
> to Windows itself as possible. The buggy program can still be made to
> work with a custom patch.

Windows has an application compatibility layer that loads with specific 
(pre-configured and user configured) applications to provide backward 
compatible behavior for buggy applications by intercepting exported 
system DLL functions. Wine should have this as well that would enable 
more applications on Wine, possibly even more than on Windows.

Kornél



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