On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:58:51AM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > David Elliott wrote: > > > Okay, so wine supplies the MoveFileEx function (like NT) for all > > versions. If you had read the archives you'd know that the chances of > > hell freezing over are greater than the chances of version specific > > behavior being added to Wine. > > Is this a principle decision for wine or is this just resignation that > it would be almost impossible to promise such a thing? I think this may
This is a principle decision. Adding version checks leads to certain madness and insanity, and creates undebuggable problems. > be also a philosophical question but I think that wine tries to emulate > windows. This means to me that we should emulate windows where we know > how it is to be done. Of course there will be a great many places where > this is not the case, but this should be considered a bug IMO. I didn't > read the archives, because it's quite some text to read, so if you could > be a more specific if this has already been decided on, then I would > appreciate a pointer. Apply common sense and clean implementation first. Use version checks only when absolutely needed. Ciao, Marcus