On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM, James Hawkins truiken@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
On the wine-users list, we're getting a lot of users who have old or even ancient .wine directories, and whose problems go away with a fresh .wine directory
Perhaps we should have wineprefixcreate stamp the version of wine the .wine directory was created with, make wine-1.0 refuse to run with pre-1.0 .wine directories, and require that future versions of wine run properly with .wine directories created by any earlier stable release of wine.
It wouldn't be hard, at least at first, and it might save a lot of support inquiries. What say?
I can't find a quote of it anywhere, but I believe that a stable wineprefix was a requirement (or at least a wish) of 1.0.
-- James Hawkins
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9959
My comment from the bug: "How about a little file in .wine or a registry key that is read upon running wine, and should match the current wine version. If it doesn't, call wineprefixcreate (or pop up an error saying that the registry is outdated), which then updates that key to the current wine version. Shouldn't be too much overhead and prevents quite a few problems."