> Well, Win98 was a deliberate choice. Just before WineConf we set
> the Crossover nightlies to Win2k by default and all our tests immediately
> went RED FAIL ;)
>
> Basically, when you set win2k by default, tons and tons of stuff breaks
> because apps become a lot more demanding. For now it makes
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:24:10 +0200, Andreas Mohr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Still,
I think we should at least target Winver=winxp and fix broken apps.
yup, I think we should try to go for that for now, despite some quite
system specific
programs overwhelming us in case of an NT version.
If
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:24:10 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> yup, I think we should try to go for that for now, despite some quite system
> specific
> programs overwhelming us in case of an NT version.
Well, Win98 was a deliberate choice. Just before WineConf we set
the Crossover nightlies to Win2k
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 09:03:21PM +, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> > This patch defaults us to Win98 mode.
> Shouldn't we default to WinXP? I know no apps except Win98 specific system
> files like InstMsiA.exe and dcom98.exe which fail with Winver=winxp. Contrary
> many apps need winver=winx
> The rationale for this change is simple: the version sniffing
> code is unreliable and gets it wrong frequently. Out of the box,
> you can't run "WINEDLLOVERRIDES=msi,msiexec.exe=n wine InstMsiA.exe"
> because of this code. You just get silence. It turns out that even
> though this is the Win98
