On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I've been lurking on this list for awhile, thinking about how I could > contribute to Wine. > > I wanted to weigh in because I think this overall proposal is on the right > track. Graceful handling of errors and crashes would provide a better user > experience and potentially help increase the adoption of Wine by more > casual users. > > I don't know much about application fault/exception handling, but couldn't > Wine just install its own top-level fault handler on each Wine > thread/process? That way, each API call in Wine can mimic the crash > behavior of Windows to satisfy applications like InstallShield, but if the > application doesn't handle the exception, the global Wine handler will pick > it up and handle it gracefully. >
What is the point? Either way, the app doesn't work as expected and Wine should be fixed. Adding a global exception handler doesn't fix anything and will more than likely break a handful of apps. -- James Hawkins
