[PATCH 0/3] Remove ancient codepaths

[Alexandre Julliard]

Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> writes:

> So you are saying that you aim to keep wine working on distributions
> which are no longer supported by their respective vendors/communities?
> It does seem strange to keep 5+ and in some cases 15+ year old
> workarounds, but hey-ho.
>
> If anything I got inspired by your commits, which are removing
> fallbacks assuming common Unix functionality. Although I don't know if
> said code was getting in the way, since the commit messages are quite
> sparse.

The fallbacks were meant to support building on Windows, but with the PE
conversion the Windows and Unix parts are properly separated, so the
Unix parts no longer need the Windows workarounds.

> Out of curiosity; Is there a genuine set of people who use _latest_
> wine with such old distros or is that a case of "I know someone who
> might".

We do get bug reports regularly, yes. For a recent example see
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51862

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org