wine users - Sep 2008 - Cannot use PREFIX with wine 1.1.4

I've decided to try out some games with wine 1.1.4 to see if there is
improvements (mainly with Bioshock) and, as always, I first created a prefix for
those tests.

My first surprise was this message :

Code:

Note: wineprefixcreate is deprecated and shouldn't be needed anymore.
         WINEPREFIX creation and updates now happen automatically when needed.




So I said : "it's just a note, no need to panic since wineprefixcreate
seems to work correctly".

But then I was affaid to see that EVERY app I tried to install crash for sure,
no matter what it is !!!

Example of what i done and worked for long ago : 

Code:

wineprefixcreate --prefix /home/raziel/test/
WINEPREFIX=/home/raziel/test/ wine /media/cdrom/setup.exe



I checked the test folder, it have all the folders/files a prefix must have !!

And before someone say : "YOU have a problem, it's not wine fault"
may I add that after saving my whole main prefix I saw that, this the default
prefix, all work like a charm, no crash when i try to install.

Many users, including me, love the possibility to create a separated prefix when
and where we want so don't tell me wine 1.1.4 and newer will lack
CORE/EXTREMLY USEFULL this feature ??!!!

If yes, I do not fear to say this is a great mistake and hope dev will
fix/reactivate this feature as soon as possible !!

If it's a bug then now ou know it and hope it will be fixed as soon as
possible.

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=1004

This link solve nothing, using wineboot instead of wineprefixcreate end to the
EXACT SAME issue.

My conclusion :
Wine 1.1.3, 1.1.4 and newer are useless until we can use prefix as we wish like
before, I will stay with wine 1.1.2 and report it as the last usable wine
version on every forum I know and make it the newest wine version usable with
our project, PlayOnLinux.

If dev are smart they will quickly revert/fix this nonsence...