Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-04-07 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Steven Edwards wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:40 PM, TheBlunderbuss > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like it, since I already do something like this! > > How about a more surreptitious way of marking versions? Maybe a reg key > > or other file. > > This way, users mi

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-04-07 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 20:46:08 schrieb Austin English: > > 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 wine

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-31 Thread Steven Edwards
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:40 PM, TheBlunderbuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like it, since I already do something like this! > How about a more surreptitious way of marking versions? Maybe a reg key > or other file. > This way, users might not be tempted to rename their ~/.wine and also >

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-31 Thread TheBlunderbuss
Dan Kegel 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 wi

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-31 Thread Dan Kegel
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Onc

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-31 Thread Alexandre Julliard
"James Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 prefi

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I bring the discussion back to my proposal, > > which was to have wine-1.0 notice old, unsupported .wine > > directories, and do something sensible? > > If we're going to force users to remake ~/.wine, it would be

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread Scott Ritchie
Dan Kegel wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:17 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:17 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread James Hawkins
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:11 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Stefan Dösin

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread Austin English
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:11 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 20:46:08 schrieb Austin En

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread James Hawkins
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 20:46:08 schrieb Austin English: > > > > > My comment from the bug: > > > "How about a little file in .wine

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread Austin English
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 20:46:08 schrieb Austin English: > > > 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 ve

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 20:46:08 schrieb Austin English: > 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 regist

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread Austin English
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread James Hawkins
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Proposal: versioning .wine directory

2008-03-30 Thread Dan Kegel
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-