On October 30, 2002 01:57 am, Ender wrote: > - Many apps do not work without Desktop enabled. This is far worse > than it sounds, because most newbies try managed non-desktop first. People > think WINE should be able to do seemless intergration. Then when an > application hangs, they think it's incompatible and give up. However in > many cases the Application will work fine in Desktop mode. BAD, these apps > should either be made to work... or non-desktop mode should be removed!
IMO desktop mode exists only because our integration is not very good. It should die sooner, rather than later, it's just a big hack. So we should rather focus on getting apps to work in non-desktop more, rather then resurrecting the silly desktop option. > - Getting the right set of dlloverrides and registry entries correct > for a large portion of software is irritating. [snip] We should aim at delivering a 0.8/0.9/1.0 that does not require native DLLs to run apps. And so, there should be no need for dlloverrides... > - The amount of cross-dependency in WINE code makes it very hard for > a newbie developer to try and debug a problem in an application he uses. > This also means that to trace most of this inter-dependency you need to > debug so many parts that the amount if debug info becomes pretty difficult > to work with. So to begin with, you need a good idea of WINEs internal > structure and DLL cross-calling before you even start to play with it. That is true, but we're much better than 5 years ago. MUCH, MUCH BETTER. The DLL separation, and sticking t Win32 API have simplified Wine programming enormously, to the point where most Windows programmers can help on Wine right off the bat. The project is huge, what do you expect? :) -- Dimi.
