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 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 outdated), which then updates that key to the current wine version.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." > In the past I've had more problems with wineprefixcreate trashing my registry > than I had with outdated registry entries. Especially if you have Internet > Explorer or the DirectX SDK or runtime installed running wineprefixcreate has > bad side effects. >
We could still store the version of wine last used and issue a (gui?) warning if it's old/outdated telling the user to either run wineprefixcreate, which may be bad in some cases, or to reinstall their apps.
