[Wine] Why is wineprefixcreate deprecated?

L. Rahyen research at science.su
Sat May 24 13:08:44 CDT 2008


On Saturday May 24 2008 17:52:08 Timeout wrote:
> I hope it will not go away.

	It is deprecated and personally I see no reason why it should stay. It was 
for manual update of a WINE prefix. Now it is automatic and therefore it 
isn't needed anymore.

> Running winecfg instead of wineprefixcreate is really be going from London
> to Paris via Moscow.

	This is true, especially for scripts.

> If I use an installing script, should I then add a 
> line closing the winecfg Window just because I don't need any configuration
> but to create the prefix to add some dlls and the exe file?

	As I already said above just use "wineboot" instead of "wineprefix".



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