Proposal: versioning .wine directory

[James Hawkins]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Stefan Dösinger <stefan at codeweavers.com> wrote:
>  > Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 20:46:08 schrieb Austin English:
>  >
>  > > My comment from the bug:
>  >  > "How about a little file in .wine  or a registry key that is read upon
>  >  > running wine, and should match the current wine version. If it doesn't,
>  >  > call wineprefixcreate (or pop up an error saying that the registry is
>  >  > outdated), which then updates that key to the current wine version.
>  >  > Shouldn't be too much overhead and prevents quite a few problems."
>  >  In the past I've had more problems with wineprefixcreate trashing my registry
>  >  than I had with outdated registry entries. Especially if you have Internet
>  >  Explorer or the DirectX SDK or runtime installed running wineprefixcreate has
>  >  bad side effects.
>  >
>
>  We could still store the version of wine last used and issue a (gui?)
>  warning if it's old/outdated telling the user to either run
>  wineprefixcreate, which may be bad in some cases, or to reinstall
>  their apps.
>

You're missing the point of having a stable wine prefix.  After 1.0,
and assuming we can get a stable wine prefix, a user should never have
to reinstall their apps.

-- 
James Hawkins