On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Austin English <austinenglish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Again, it's a very dangerous practice. If you test for the the broken > behavior (which can occur on Windows as well), you won't risk breaking > Wine in the future, and also fix the app for broken Windows machines. > It would probably better to bundle a version of Wine with the application (like Picasa), which would prevent this issue... (It would make the detection code unnecessary as well, since you know that the version will always run under Wine) This should not be used as an alternative to reporting bugs though... (Although doing it in parallel might be a nice trade-off)