On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:01, Andreas Mohr wrote: > Please DON'T do this. > These are FORCED, GLOBAL values, as such they are highly evil > (since that way the whole version detection mechanism gets disabled > and many programs which need other values cannot have their version > guessed properly any more).
Oops, I forgot that Wine has autodetection magic for this. > Instead, the default fallback values in the version code should probably > be changed to refer to Win98 to make sure we do use Win98 in case we cannot > guess any value (if they are not already, but they might still be at Win95). Well, where is this code? I have no idea even how apps are supposed to get the version, except I know there are many different ways to do it. > And we should also indicate in the sample config file that actually setting > these will override any and all intelligent(?) version detection mechanisms... > (if only to prevent other people from attempting the same mistake as you ;) Yes, it's rather non-obvious