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

[Alexandre Julliard]

Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> writes:

> Drive and folders configuration is really a very small thing to worry about.
> I've observed situations when a prefix update installs wine-mono to a prefix
> with installed .net with predictable results, or suddenly a gecko update
> completely ruins a previosuly fine working application. Sometimes it's not
> always possible to fix the things afterwards, and the only way to cure it
> is a full reinstall, that's why the automatic updates get disabled.

Please file bugs for these things. And honestly, if you want to make
sure things keep running, upgrading the dlls but not the prefix doesn't
sound like a good idea. Just stick to the old working version.

>> Running recent dlls against obsolete config data is not
>> something we should try to support.
>
> If the support doesn't need a lot of efforts why not provide it to our users?
> In this particular case it's just a matter of making sure that a directory
> exists before starting watching its changes.

I'm not sure that I see why you'd even be watching for changes, since an
old prefix won't have a configured scheduler service.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org