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

[Austin English]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 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.
>  >
>  >   --
>  >   Alexandre Julliard
>  >   julliard at winehq.org
>  >
>  >
>
>

It is listed in the list of commands:
http://wiki.winehq.org/ListofCommands

Although, a name like wine-update may be a bit more intuitive. How
about something in winecfg to automatically call wineprefixcreate?