[Wine] Re: Why is wineprefixcreate deprecated?

[Chad]

Bamm wrote:
> I understand that it is applied automatically when needed, but there are times when one would want to run it manually. An example is when I want to literally create a new wine prefix such as 
> 
> env WINEPREFIX="/home/bamm/apps/myprog" wineprefixcreate
> 
> to prepare a clean profile for future installation of myprog. I know that running setup with a WINEPREFIX would create the clean profile, but sometimes I would want to copy a few needed files into the system32 folder before running setup. Hence, in this case, I would want the wine prefix to exist before I run
> 
> env WINEPREFIX="/home/bamm/apps/myprog" wine setup.exe
> 
> I was surprised to see the message when I ran wineprefixcreate:
> 
> "Note: wineprefixcreate is deprecated and shouldn't be needed anymore.
> WINEPREFIX creation and updates now happen automatically when needed."
> 
> I am afraid they might soon remove this useful command (this is what "deprecated" means right?).
> 
> I hope they decide otherwise and "undeprecate" it. Most people won't need to know about it anyway, but those who do will find it useful if the situation calls for it.


I also used it quite a bit. However, I guess it is just as easy to do 

env WINEPREFIX="/path/to/winebottles" winecfg

Which will create said directory without having to launch an app. However, doing 'wineprefixcreate --prefix /path/to/winebottles' was convenient.