http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8033
--- Comment #58 from rankincj@yahoo.com 2007-10-08 13:48:28 --- (In reply to comment #57)
Have you ever taken a registry from another version of windows and glued it into a different version? It won't work! That's essentially what you're doing!
Eh? What is that you essentially think that I am doing??? All I have done at the moment is upgrade binary Wine RPMs and report that Wine core-dumps! ("Core dump BAD").
The only other registry tweaking that I have done was needed to persuade the app to run with a clean wineprefix directory, at your behest.
We know that the registry is a prone point of failure and that is why we ask you to do this.
Please remember to tell Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and all the other distros. By the sound of it, *none* of your users are doing this.
If you want to figure out how to reinstall wine without going through all the patches for WoW (which is entirely possible)...
WoW is simply an example of a popular Windows application with an extremely non-trivial installation procedure; something that no-one in their right mind would want to repeat every time that a new version of Wine is released. I actually reported this bug about a completely different application.