Re: Java on host and wineprefix questions

Scott Ritchie <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:31:33 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user
Message-ID <CA+s1tf=H5ntZm3BSPErnJT2rzZzeyqu2v7iCx3skCY_Jgmo8yg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Martin Gregorie <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's no problem in having several separate directories pointed to by
> $WINEPREFIX in the same user. I do it all the time. You only need a 3 or
> 4 line bash script to set $WINEPREFIX to point to the setup you want to
> run and then run wine. I have the impression that the more recent WINE
> releases are expecting a Linux box to have multiple WINE apps installed
> in separate prefixes because they seem to share more WINE code between
> prefixes.
>
>

A lot of tools (eg winetricks and playonlinux) work by creating
separate wine prefixes for indivdual apps.  It is indeed a common use
case, though I haven't throughly tested what happens when you run them
concurrently and spawn multiple wineservers.