[Wine] Try wineprefixcreate to repair old .wine instead of deleting

[Dan Kegel]

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 Dösinger <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.

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 Alexandre Julliard
 julliard at winehq.org