On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 13:09 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:51:07 -0400 "WLM" == William L Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
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WLM> I chose not to uninstall the distributed one. I unpackaed the WLM> 3.0rc1 tarball in the $HOME of a user and run it from there. <snipped recipe> WLM> This lets all other users get the box-stock version while I WLM> test the new one. So far it's looking pretty good.Question: if I do this, will I be able to move back to the stock-1.5-version without problems. In other words: is the stuff like bookmarks, history etc that is written to disk backward-compatible?
Last time I did something like this was with the beta 5 release. In that case I removed the box version and installed globally. Going that direction, the per-user config files seemed to hold as normal. Once I discovered that the needed Java app wouldn't work, I uninstalled the beta, reinstalled box-stock.
Again, no config issues.
Before everybody beats me like a rented mule, there was no risk to other users - I'm it, just with different logons. So I felt comfortable with picking up the pieces if it broke and did not grab one of my other machines for testing.
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HTH