On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> This is good info Dan. Thanks.>> I must say that as a user type I think the program name> 'wineprefixcreate' has got to be one of the worst I've run into in a> long, long time. I suppose it has some histroy that makes sense if you> know it but for a new user coming to Wine for the first time I can> hardly imagine a name less descriptive! :-)>> - Mark>>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> > 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> >> >>> It is listed in the list of commands:http://wiki.winehq.org/ListofCommands Although, a name like wine-update may be a bit more intuitive. Howabout something in winecfg to automatically call wineprefixcreate?
