[Wine] Why is wineprefixcreate deprecated?

[Austin English]

On 5/24/08, Bamm <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> In the past, I've always thought that the practice of using wineprefixcreate
> to "update" (as opposed to create) an already existing prefix is a kind of
> workaround for the absence of a "wineprefixupdate". Now that updating is
> automatic, we deprecate wineprefixcreate, and then suggest wineboot to
> create the prefix. We're creating another misnomer.

The problem was that people would not use wineprefixcreate to update
their prefixes when using new wine versions, which led to false bug
reports.

> And I mentioned that sometimes we actually need to create a wine prefix, as
> opposed to updating an existing prefix (such as when needing to run the
> installer from within the prefix or needing to add some dlls).
The need to create a new prefix before running an actual program is a
rarity nowadays. In that event, use winecfg/wineboot/notepad/etc.