winetest: Skip over stub dll if detected

Rosanne DiMesio dimesio at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 27 16:30:50 CST 2014


On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:15:16 -0600
Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 27, 2014 3:28 AM, "Stefan Dösinger" <stefandoesinger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> 
> > > + * Windows 8 has a concept of stub DLL's.  When DLLMain is called the
> user is prompted
> > > + *  to install that component.  To bypass this check we need to look
> at the version resource.
> > A matter of opinion according to Wikipedia, feel free to ignore me:
> "DLLs" would be better as the plural of "DLL". "DLL's" looks like the
> possessive, although
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plurals#Plurals_of_letters_and_abbreviations
> says that using 's to form the plural of an abbreviation is legitimate.
> 
> The apostrophe is sometimes used, but it's definitely not the preferred way.

Using apostrophes to pluralize abbreviations and numbers was more common in the past, but is outdated. In contemporary usage, apostrophes are for possessives and contractions, and only used to pluralize in cases where they are needed to make the meaning clear (e.g., "A's" vs "As"). 



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