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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can just set a different XDG_CONFIG_HOME. I think this should be left
for the user to define. Usually I have seen no significant problems running
with the same config dir. This may of course not aleays be true.

Alternatively the nightly package can provide a wrapper script that sets
this to something else. Then the user can use this, or make their own, or
not use it at all depending on what the user is testing.

Den ons. 4. apr. 2018 14.27 skrev Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I can confirm that many users would appreciate the possibility to run
> several precompiled versions. It has come up in the user forums. Using a
> virtual machine for that purpose has been suggested as a solution, but it's
> not very convenient.
>
> One possible problem is the configuration compatibility. It might be a
> good idea to have a command line switch to use a different configuration
> files/directories so that the installations could be completely
> independent. Also the env variables may be a problem. Maybe they could be
> overriden with command line switches, too?
>
> Eeli Kaikkonen
>
>
> 2018-04-04 13:52 GMT+03:00 Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>> Since I provide PPA (daily build for Ubuntu) for KiCad, I receive some
>> requests about installing daily build packages in parallel with stable
>> version.
>> With next version (V5) I think it can be useful...
>> FreeCad provide this kind of feature and you are able to run both
>> version in parallel.
>>
>> For testing that I had created a dedicated PPA:
>> ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-dev-daily
>> (to add with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-dev-daily)
>>
>> Once added, you are able to install a new package "kicad-daily" that
>> won't conflict with existing "kicad" packages.
>> All files are installed on a separate folder and commands became
>> "something-daily". For example kicad-daily or pcbnew-daily...
>>
>> So my questions are:
>> - Is it usefull ?
>> - Is it a bad idea/stupid :( ?
>> - If you test it, are you able to find some limitations/bugs ?
>> - Perhaps to have is plainly functional some modifications are needed.
>> What modifications ?
>>
>>
>> For the moment, you can't run in same time two versions (or there are
>> some error messages...) anyway both are installed and easily "runnable"...
>>
>>
>> Please give your comments, feedbacks...
>>
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