wine users - May 2010 - Is there a way to keep Wine 1.2 and 1.0 at the same time?

I have some applications under Wine that do not work with Wine 1.1.44, they all
work (I think, I didn't test them all) with Wine 1.0.1, but the programs
that work with both releases don't run as well in Wine 1.0.1 and no matter
what, I can't get the audio to work.

It even crashes if I try to test the audio in the Wine configurator.

Any idea?

We want to try to prevent as much regressions as possible (hopefully some of the
bugs will still be fixed). There is no easy way of mixing the two versions. If
you want it you need to compile one of the versions (likely 1.0.1) by hand and
use some scripts to launch the old version. Further I would use different Wine
prefixes for 1.0 and 1.2 (else Wine takes long to startup when you swtich
between the two).

On 10 May 2010 23:23, Thunderbird <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> We want to try to prevent as much regressions as possible (hopefully some
of the bugs will still be fixed). There is no easy way of mixing the two
versions. If you want it you need to compile one of the versions (likely 1.0.1)
by hand and use some scripts to launch the old version. Further I would use
different Wine prefixes for 1.0 and 1.2 (else Wine takes long to startup when
you swtich between the two).

You can certainly run multiple versions of Wine with different
wineprefixes easily enough. (For "carefully script things yourself"
values of "easy.") This is a good way to do testing of Wine while
keeping a "stable" installation, by the way.

(Is this a FAQ yet?)


- d.