[Wine] Segmentation Fault

[James McKenzie]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:18 PM, ischou <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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> jjmckenzie wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:33 PM, ischou <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>> > Also, keep in mind that when you upgrade your version of wine and use the same WINEPREFIX to run your program,
>> > wine
>> > will update your WINEPREFIX, and you cannot simply downgrade wine to run from the same WINEPREFIX.
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>> Not so fast.  I do this repeatedly.  Wine will 'update' data in your
>> Wine Prefix if it discovers that a newer installation is present or an
>> older one.
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> Really?  Every time I've done this, my programs always crash when I attempt to use a older version of wine.  I make it a
> habit of naming my WINEPREFIXES now with the wine version that prefix is associated with.  Maybe I'm just unlucky.
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Could be.  I've was switching between the 'stable' and development
versions of Wine and had no problems.  However, I don't recommend
doing so on a regular basis.  That is why I recommend, for now, one
program -> one WinePrefix.

James

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