Hi Uwe,
After reading all the posts on this I think I will continue working on this
dll with a view to eventually starting a msvcrt effort as well (although
this will be a very big job). I agree that "native" should currently be
preferred over "builtin" though - the current implementation is largely
stubs and the native version works fine AFAIK.
My reasoning is:
-Every win installation from 3.1 to 2k includes it. So its reasonable to
assume applications still depend on it.
-About Wine @ winehq states it will be an "alternative implementation
consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code". IMHO this means anything that comes
with the o/s is an o/s service and should be provided. I'm not sure about
the legalities of releasing software including this file either.
-Non-ix86 winelib apps need a local crt to build against (although msvcrt
would be the real solution).
-cygwin looks like it provides a good testbed to test the functionality.
-I feel a bit lost around the non-dll parts of the tree, and I really don't
want to break anything for anyone else ;-)
I'm a bit confused at present about winelib programs and the libc they use,
so I may come back with questions in the near future.
In any case, it will be a while before I'm ready to post any patches; I want
to test quite thoroughly the different behaviours under Windows and Linux.
>PS: Don't let your activity be stopped by my rantings...
OK :-)
Thanks a lot for your input (and everyone else who wrote).
Jon
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