Add a WINEVER environment variable

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Fri Jul 23 12:27:01 CDT 2004


Mike Hearn <mike at navi.cx> writes:

> What's wrong with having lots of them? They don't conflict and
> realistically there are a few people use a lot (WINEDEBUG,
> WINEDLLOVERRIDES) and the rest (WINEPREFIX, WINEDLLPATH etc) are used only
> occasionally or only by scripts.

It adds complexity, requires more documentation, it's more things that
can go wrong in the user's setup, etc.  This doesn't mean we can't add
a new variable, but it means you have to make a convincing case that
it is needed.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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