Dan, On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote: > I'd been suggesting to ISVs that they create a single > winelib dll and conditionally load that if present, > but winegate.dll might be an appealing alternative.
I think wine needs some universal library so as there is not 20 other ISV-specific solutions... If wine-team decides not to include this (or similar .dll) in the Wine package, we'll just redistribute it with the application, but I think there is need for such library. > I don't think this really brings up any security considerations > but it is a reminder that Windows programs under Wine > have access to the entire Linux system just like Linux > programs do. > > btw nice name, but it pulls up 7 million hits for me, > not sure what you mean by "google doesn't reveal > any other uses of the name". :-))) I was searching for "winegate.dll", not just plain winegate. I meant that there will likely be no collision with other .DLL. Now it finds my post + some garbage. Google is damn fast. Martin
