austin987 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM, antoniong <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Fine if that is you're opinion but you have given perfect arguments against the philosophy of Open souces. > > > > How so? > > > > Last but not least: I came here with a perfectly normal and simple question (how to detect whether Wine is running) and all I met were people telling me to find the error (without even thinking that such might be near to impossible) and not even a single bit of help! > > > > I gave you a few different ways to do it, which you apparently > ignored. As I said, it's a really bad idea to do, but if you want to, > the best way would be to detect the broken behavior (since many > windows machines may do the same thing). Another good way is to do as > Utorrent does, and make the hack optional in the settings, so that if > Wine is fixed, the hack can be disabled. > > On a side note, you go between implying that you wrote this code and > want to fix it for Wine and acting as if normal users can detect that > Wine is running. How will a user allowing a program to detect Wine > help, unless the program already had some hacks? Like I said, it's > programmers that are concerned about this, not end users. > > -- > -Austin I nowhere wrote or even suggested that I was the one writing the code! I am the one testing a Windows app that is supposed to run under Linux using Wine. I have no access (and do not want to) to the winsource code neither do I want any access to the Wine sourcecode. To me Wine is a utility that makes it possible to run Win apps under Linux! Nothing more, nothing less. However, there seems to be a problem and with my over 40 years of programming experience I seek a solution by which the developer of the app can easily adapt his programm to the yes/no Wine. Possible consequences in the futute are his not yours and are his to decide only.
