Alexandre says we should have users try wineprefixcreate before having them blow away their old .wine directory. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:44 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory To: James Hawkins <truiken@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Austin English <austinenglish@xxxxxxxxx>, wine-devel@xxxxxxxxxx, Stefan Dösinger <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> "James Hawkins" <truiken@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If we have a stable wine prefix in 1.0, I don't see what could > possibly be added in 1.2 that would break that. The idea is that, > even if you add a new dll that needs to be registered in, say, 1.0.5, > you still don't need to remove your wine prefix or reinstall any apps. That should already be the case, there's nothing magical about 1.0 that would suddenly cause that to happen. And if there are cases where it doesn't work we have to fix them before 1.0 is out. I think we should stop telling people to blow away their .wine, and have them run wineprefixcreate instead. Then if wineprefixcreate doesn't do the update correctly we need to figure out why and fix it. Once we are confident that it can do the update safely we can have it run automatically when it detects an upgrade. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard@xxxxxxxxxx
