[Wine] exporting registry to Wine

[L. Rahyen]

On Tuesday December 18 2007 19:10, David Baron wrote:
> I have had little problems running native installations in Wine. Indeed,
> any buggy behavior I found existed both ways. I would not expect Wine to
> explicitely support running native installations but this is in fact a test
> of its capabilities. To simply flame anyone who tries it is also not the
> best practice.

	This isn't a flame but just overview of facts and technical problems that 
prevents such configuration from working correctly. And exactly because of 
that this functionality will never be a part of WINE. If you think 
otherwise - try to implement it and you understand this on your own 
experience.

> The information is useful.

	If you want short answer here it is: WINE team don't care about bug reports 
from unsupported or broken configurations and all such bug reports will be 
marked as INVALID (therefore this information is useless - not useful!) - you 
will need to reinstall application(s) in question properly in clean WINE 
before reporting a bug.

	If installer doesn't work you should report a bug. Non-working installer is 
quite rare problem these days - most programs installs without problems. If 
you have a problem installing a program in a clean WINE, report a bug.
	Just importing whole Windows registry will not work correctly - therefore 
many programs *will* fail to work in such broken configuration - and this is 
not WINE fault.

	If you really want to bypass installation on WINE because of not working 
installer for specific program(s), read my previous message carefully, I 
explained in details how this can be done (but shouldn't because 
*unsupported*) when you (or any other user) REALLY need this. In case of any 
additional question like what monitoring tools you need for doing this feel 
free to ask me, I always try to help users who really need help if I can. But 
please note that you shouldn't expect easy success or even working 
configuration if you try this because unsupported workaround != proper fix. 
And in all cases like this you should properly report a bug first (if it 
wasn't already reported in the past) before trying to find workaround.

	 However, if all you want is to waste your time by trying to import whole 
Windows registry to WINE just for fun - you are free to do so. Trust me, 
results will be far from perfect. If you don't believe - try it, and you 
understand this yourself.