[PATCH] schedsvc: In case it's an old Wine prefix create c:\windows\tasks automatically.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> writes:

> Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>> >> > This patch helps to avoid manual creation of c:\windows\tasks in old Wine
>> >> > prefixes a user may have around.
>> >> 
>> >> Why wasn't it created from wine.inf on prefix update?
>> >
>> > As far as I understand prefix update sometimes was intentionally disabled
>> > mainly to avoid installing new versions of gecko and breaking changed drive
>> > configuration. There are also other issues with automatic prefix updates.
>> 
>> I'd say that's a case where you get the keep the pieces if it's
>> broken. I don't see a need to add workarounds in the code for broken
>> prefixes.
>
> The prefix is not broken, contrary, the intention is to avoid breaking it,
> and the prefix updates are known to break the custom configured things like
> folder and drive configurations besides other things. Some customers have
> their prefixes created years ago with very old versions of Wine, and things
> still work. It would be a major pain if their prefixes got broken by an
> unwanted prefix update.

If you consider all the things that get updated on prefix updates, and
all the places that depend on the prefix being updated, I'd say they are
extremely lucky if things still work.

If a prefix update breaks the drive configuration, that's a bug that
should be fixed. Running recent dlls against obsolete config data is not
something we should try to support.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org