Reece Dunn wrote: > 2008/12/21 Scott Ritchie <sc...@open-vote.org>: >> Reece Dunn wrote: >>> Sure. But what if an application was shipped after Vista or Windows >>> Server 2008, but only worked on XP and earlier. Your detection would >>> not work here. >> In that case the user is no worse off - they'd still need to look up >> AppDB and change their settings with winecfg. > > I was intending to have some programming logic to download the data > from AppDB and apply this to winecfg/the registry. That way the user > does not have to look it up, it becomes something that is updated as > part of the install process. > > For the case where there isn't any AppDB data, the default version of > Windows is reported as is done at the moment. >
Right, but none of that would be necessary if the heuristic worked in the first place. By having a good heuristic we could at least dramatically cut down on the apps needing this logic. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
