[PATCH 2/5] winecfg: Bring back 32-bit Windows versions for 64-bit WINEPREFIXES

[Vincent Povirk]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Do the developers really want to fix bugs caused by setting a 64 bit wineprefix to Windows 2.0?

No, but the prefix arch isn't my primary concern about this scenario.

I do not care about any bug caused by setting the Windows version to
something earlier than the default when it isn't necessary. The
distinction between "This doesn't work because you set your prefix to
a Windows version that doesn't exist." and "This doesn't work because
you set your prefix to a Windows version that no one uses anymore."
isn't important to me.

If you're setting the Windows version globally to something very old,
you should absolutely create a new prefix for it, even if your Wine
build is 32-bit, because it will break anything modern you try to run.
If you set it for a single .exe, that's probably comparable to
windows' "compatibility mode" as described by Stefan, and the damage
should be limited to a single app anyway.

I would be in favor of adding old versions back to winecfg at least
when filtered to a specific .exe file, with no warnings around it.