Re: [PATCH] powrprof.dll stub

Hi Michal,

Thanks for bringing the fact that all that Planetside needs is a simple 
stub in powrprof.dll.  That is certainly a very useful thing to know, 
and I'm going to speak on the rest of the dev team's behalf and say that 
we'll probably add in the stub at some point in the next few releases, 
regardless of what license it's under.  Having it under the X11 license 
is nice, but not always necessary.  Since it's a stub DLL, it would be 
pretty trivial for us to just redo it ourselves.

That said, without more people voting for Planetside, we are not likely 
to support it further if there are future patches or updates that break 
it.  Supporting auto-updating games can be a substantial time sink for 
us, and its hard to justify that time unless there's a big audience for 
the game. 

Regardless, everyone's efforts at either contributing patches, or just 
working out the reasons behind why a game has a problem are certainly 
appreciated.

Take care,
 -Gav

Michal Příhoda wrote:

> Well, sure, here we go, trying to be helpful. I pay Transgaming the 
> subscription for all the years, begging for the only game I tend to 
> play - Planetside. After more than two years I find out, that the only 
> reason the game does not start is one stupid call to powrprof.dll. 
> Simple stub is all that's needed.
>
> Is Transgaming going to provide one? Like 3 minutes of work for 
> experienced wine hacker? No, Transgaming is going to waste everyone's 
> time demanding licence change for - let me scream that - EMPTY DLL.
>
> Well, that's it for me. I'll better stop now, winex-devel is probably 
> not the right place for flaming. I really wish TG to succeed, but for 
> me, this was the last drop. GL, HF.



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