Markus Hitter writes:
> Am 22.12.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Reece Dunn:
>
>> The same goes for applications released after Vista was released, but
>> only work well on XP. The date heuristic will say "Vista",
>
> ... just like the current-heuristic-less assumption. Undoubtly, there
> are many cases
2008/12/22 Roderick Colenbrander
> Basically microsoft ships its own 'appdb' which contains the windows
> version an app wants to see and in general much, much more things. For
> instance their appdb allows windows to override the return values of
> functions, it can fake the presence of certain
> > On Sunday 21 December 2008 07:48:58 pm Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> >> The heuristic isn't "app works on this Windows version", it's "app is
> >> designed for this Windows version".
> >
> > Should that matter? Plenty of Win95 apps will work in WinXP.
>
> ... because WinXP has such a version heuri
Am 22.12.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Reece Dunn:
> The same goes for applications released after Vista was released, but
> only work well on XP. The date heuristic will say "Vista",
... just like the current-heuristic-less assumption. Undoubtly, there
are many cases where a date heuristic doesn't he
2008/12/22 Markus Hitter :
> Am 22.12.2008 um 05:16 schrieb Chris Robinson:
>
>> Should that matter? Plenty of Win95 apps will work in WinXP.
>
> ... because WinXP has such a version heuristic already in place?
>
> I think it's perfectly possible to do an heuristic which is sometimes
> useful, but
Am 22.12.2008 um 05:16 schrieb Chris Robinson:
> On Sunday 21 December 2008 07:48:58 pm Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
>> The heuristic isn't "app works on this Windows version", it's "app is
>> designed for this Windows version".
>
> Should that matter? Plenty of Win95 apps will work in WinXP.
... bec
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> The bulk download would only work if you install applications to their
> default location, but it seems like a good idea.
>
Not necesarily. This is where sha1sums/file name/file size are useful.
On Sunday 21 December 2008 07:48:58 pm Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> The heuristic isn't "app works on this Windows version", it's "app is
> designed for this Windows version".
Should that matter? Plenty of Win95 apps will work in WinXP. Sometimes better,
due to the improved functionality/bugfixes XP
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Chris Robinson wrote:
> On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:46:37 pm Scott Ritchie wrote:
>> Right, but none of that would be necessary if the heuristic worked in
>> the first place. By having a good heuristic we could at least
>> dramatically cut down on the apps needi
On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:46:37 pm Scott Ritchie wrote:
> Right, but none of that would be necessary if the heuristic worked in
> the first place. By having a good heuristic we could at least
> dramatically cut down on the apps needing this logic.
But how do you tell when an app needs the Win
Reece Dunn wrote:
> 2008/12/21 Scott Ritchie :
>> Reece Dunn wrote:
>>> Sure. But what if an application was shipped after Vista or Windows
>>> Server 2008, but only worked on XP and earlier. Your detection would
>>> not work here.
>> In that case the user is no worse off - they'd still need to loo
2008/12/21 Scott Ritchie :
> Reece Dunn wrote:
>> Sure. But what if an application was shipped after Vista or Windows
>> Server 2008, but only worked on XP and earlier. Your detection would
>> not work here.
>
> In that case the user is no worse off - they'd still need to look up
> AppDB and change
Reece Dunn wrote:
> 2008/12/21 Damjan Jovanovic :
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Reece Dunn wrote:
>>> 2008/12/21 Damjan Jovanovic :
>>> You can change the version of Windows reported for different
>>> applications, and the default version using winecfg -> Applications.
>> I know, but bugs c
2008/12/21 Damjan Jovanovic :
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Reece Dunn wrote:
>> 2008/12/21 Damjan Jovanovic :
>> You can change the version of Windows reported for different
>> applications, and the default version using winecfg -> Applications.
>
> I know, but bugs coming up from the wrong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Reece Dunn wrote:
> 2008/12/21 Damjan Jovanovic :
>> There are some older applications out there, which don't install or
>> run correctly unless Wine is emulating the correct Windows version
>> (eg. Windows 9x).
>>
>> At least Windows XP has the ability to use cer
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:19:35AM +0200, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> Hi
>
> There are some older applications out there, which don't install or
> run correctly unless Wine is emulating the correct Windows version
> (eg. Windows 9x).
>
> At least Windows XP has the ability to use certain heuristics
2008/12/21 Damjan Jovanovic :
> There are some older applications out there, which don't install or
> run correctly unless Wine is emulating the correct Windows version
> (eg. Windows 9x).
>
> At least Windows XP has the ability to use certain heuristics to make
> an educated guess as to which vers
Hi
There are some older applications out there, which don't install or
run correctly unless Wine is emulating the correct Windows version
(eg. Windows 9x).
At least Windows XP has the ability to use certain heuristics to make
an educated guess as to which version of Windows the application
expect
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