On 5/30/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This has been discussed previously. It looks likely that to fix this so WoW works out of the box requires extensive and intricate changes to the core of either Wine or the kernel to provide a more accurate match to the NT memory layout model. I rate the chances of this happening anytime soon as being low. It's not that people don't care, it's more that there are no developers with the time/motivation/skill hanging around who want to work on it, it seems.
It would be really great if someone could document the patch and explain what exactly is stopping WoW from working (as well as which changes would cause problems for other programs). I think there would be more chance of getting developers working on the problem if the problems involved were clearer and easier to see/understand.
Alternatively there could be (should be!) pre-built versions of Wine that run for all users customized for WoW specifically.
Given the amount of users who use wine to run WoW, would it be possible to have the patch included with a compile-time option? Would it even be possible to make the patch a runtime feature? n0dalus.
