Kai Blin wrote: > Granted. I've been doing that when I had some spare time. Working on winsock > bugs, I can tell that about one in ten bug reports is detailed enough (after > requesting more information) to actually nail down a bug. For the nine other > bug reports, you can spend a lot of time searching the bug, so yes, enough to > keep you busy. >
We agree that Lousy bug reports are abundant > >>> Most users will figure out that clicking "use the override" will make >>> less problems than the other button. I'm not sure that'll lead to easier >>> bug reports. >>> > > [...] > > >> In fact this can lead to the situation where the user gets into the habit >> of always copying in as many native DLLs as he can and always overriding to >> native which is why we hate WineTools. >> > > And how exactly is automatically using native dlls if found in the > application's directory going to help? Won't people get into the habit of > putting as many native dlls as possible into the application's working > directory as well? > I doubt that, if they were to do that they are still more likely to go the route of putting them in the system directory and doing a global override because its easier. > I agree we probably won't loose much, but I'm not sure what we're going to > win, apart from easier dll overrides. > 1. Fewer lousy bug reports because when the bug is reported it will be more concise. 2. More applications working out of the box. -- Tony Lambregts