PathSearchAndQualify patch not applied?

Hello,

I have an application that tries to use PathSearchAndQualify.
However, since the current implementation is just stubbed (it contains 
only a FIXME + return FALSE), it doesn't work.

Now searching in the gmane wine patch archive I found an email dated 
back to 22 dec 2003 that contains a possible implementation for 
PathSearchAndQualify (see also at 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.wine.patches/6810/match=pathsearchandqualify 
).

However, it seems that this patch was never applied and I'm wondering 
why. Note that I haven't tried to apply this patch and test it locally.

Can someone clarify if this patch is ok or not (and why it's not applied 
yet?)

Best regards,

Jeroen Janssen