Hello Wolfgang,
Am 16.12.19 um 11:42 schrieb Wolfgang Rosner:
> Hi Bernhard,
>
> Thanks for the debug instructions.
>
> I'll go to try them, maybe the next weekend.
>
> Notes is an essential tool of my daily work, so extended trials block
> me from productive offfice work for some hours, since I don't have a
> separate testing environment.
>
> I managed to finish builds of wine 1.8.7 ( --without-freetype) and
> wine-4.21 on my box. Next step is to figure out how I could set up a
> different sandbox style testing not only for the binaries, but also the
> prefix skeletons and the fonts. So haven't done 'make install' yet.
Normally it should be possible to run wine from the build directory,
therefore should not be needed to install it. E.g.:
/home/user/wine-4.20/wine notepad.exe
> One thing on my suspicion list may be broken version contingencies in
> the wine prefixes and/or the font installation in use.
> Anytime I run a prefix with a different wine version
> I get some window mentioning sth. like "registry upgrade".
> Would be glad to have a clue what's going on there.
If wine detects a change in wine version a prefix was run last time
and now, it tries to update that prefix.
Therefore, if you have important applications in your prefix, I
would suggest to minimize the wine version changes to that prefix.
If you want to just test something you can use WINEPREFIX for
a different wine environment, e.g.:
export WINEPREFIX=/home/user/wine-prefix-for-test
> I know the bug list is not the proper place for help questions, but a
> hint where to find those issues explained would nevertheless help
> to speed up the process of bug fixing.
Do you mean something like these:
https://bugs.winehq.org/
https://forums.winehq.org/
> Regarding trial installation sources:
> 20 years back in "good old" IBM times they were quite relaxed with
> public availability of installation sources for trial purposes.
> This seems to have changed, as I found in a search for a more recent
> notes version. So I don't dare to make one publicly available.
>
> It's a 125 MB exe file,
What is the name of that file?
Kind regards,
Bernhard
