wine users - Mar 2008 - Try wineprefixcreate to repair old .wine instead of deleting

Alexandre says we should have users try wineprefixcreate
before having them blow away their old .wine directory.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory
To: James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com>
Cc: Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>, wine-devel at winehq.org,
Stefan D?singer <stefan at codeweavers.com>, Dan Kegel <dank at
kegel.com>


"James Hawkins" <truiken at gmail.com> writes:

 > If we have a stable wine prefix in 1.0, I don't see what could
 > possibly be added in 1.2 that would break that.  The idea is that,
 > even if you add a new dll that needs to be registered in, say, 1.0.5,
 > you still don't need to remove your wine prefix or reinstall any apps.

 That should already be the case, there's nothing magical about 1.0 that
 would suddenly cause that to happen. And if there are cases where it
 doesn't work we have to fix them before 1.0 is out. I think we should
 stop telling people to blow away their .wine, and have them run
 wineprefixcreate instead.  Then if wineprefixcreate doesn't do the
 update correctly we need to figure out why and fix it.  Once we are
 confident that it can do the update safely we can have it run
 automatically when it detects an upgrade.

 --
 Alexandre Julliard
 julliard at winehq.org

This is good info Dan. Thanks.

I must say that as a user type I think the program name
'wineprefixcreate' has got to be one of the worst I've run into in a
long, long time. I suppose it has some histroy that makes sense if you
know it but for a new user coming to Wine for the first time I can
hardly imagine a name less descriptive! :-)

- Mark

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
wrote:
> Alexandre says we should have users try wineprefixcreate
>  before having them blow away their old .wine directory.
>
>
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
>  Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:44 AM
>  Subject: Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory
>  To: James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com>
>  Cc: Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>, wine-devel at
winehq.org,
>  Stefan D?singer <stefan at codeweavers.com>, Dan Kegel <dank at
kegel.com>
>
>
>  "James Hawkins" <truiken at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   > If we have a stable wine prefix in 1.0, I don't see what could
>   > possibly be added in 1.2 that would break that.  The idea is that,
>   > even if you add a new dll that needs to be registered in, say,
1.0.5,
>   > you still don't need to remove your wine prefix or reinstall any
apps.
>
>   That should already be the case, there's nothing magical about 1.0
that
>   would suddenly cause that to happen. And if there are cases where it
>   doesn't work we have to fix them before 1.0 is out. I think we should
>   stop telling people to blow away their .wine, and have them run
>   wineprefixcreate instead.  Then if wineprefixcreate doesn't do the
>   update correctly we need to figure out why and fix it.  Once we are
>   confident that it can do the update safely we can have it run
>   automatically when it detects an upgrade.
>
>   --
>   Alexandre Julliard
>   julliard at winehq.org
>
>