2008/12/22 Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbir...@gmx.net> > Basically microsoft ships its own 'appdb' which contains the windows > version an app wants to see and in general much, much more things. For > instance their appdb allows windows to override the return values of > functions, it can fake the presence of certain files/directories/registry > keys, it can perform memory hacks and so on. >
Something like that, not necessarily as a core part of wine but a side project in the manner of winetricks, might actually be a good idea from a user's point of view. A wine app launcher that maintains a list of known applications and the compatibility tweaks that are required in order to get them to run, or at least offer sensible advice (eg, where an app requires a native dll that is missing in order to work correctly). Its database would, I guess, be against app name and wine version, and then as wine improved it would need to do less and less. -- Chris
