[Wine] Re: Why is wineprefixcreate deprecated?

[vitamin]

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
> 

Replace "wineprefixcreate" with any of the Wine's own programs. Such as winecfg or notepad for example.



Bamm wrote:
> I am afraid they might soon remove this useful command (this is what "deprecated" means right?).

Doubt it will go away. Something still needs to create an environment. But you should stop using anything that's marked deprecated.