I suspect that running multiple versions may well provide multiple
headaches.
darktable is complex enough in a single version. KISS .. is best advice.
On 2018-12-10 1:00 p.m., August Schwerdfeger wrote:
I have often run several different versions of Darktable
(manually-compiled) on my machine.
Due to database incompatibilities between the major versions of
Darktable, you either have to create a second user account as Bruce
suggests, or use the '--configdir' command-line option to specify a
different configuration directory/database for each version.
I imagine that there would be similar compatibility issues involved if
you imported image files into more than one such database and the
sidecar files were overwritten, but I have never done this, so I
cannot say for sure.
--
August Schwerdfeger
aug...@schwerdfeger.name <mailto:aug...@schwerdfeger.name>
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM Bruce Williams <stu...@audio2u.com
<mailto:stu...@audio2u.com>> wrote:
Others may have a more suitable or elegant answer, but I've been
considering a similar proposition.... Which is to simply create a
second user account on the Linux machine and run the
unstable/development version of darktable under that account.
Given that all the processing is stored in sidecar files, both
user accounts (and therefore, both the stable and unstable
releases) would be able to read the same folders and see the same
sidecar files.
I guess there might be issues when the stable release tried to
look at sidecar files which were created in the unstable version.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Bruce Williams.
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From: *Bernhard* <darkta...@intervalsignals.org
<mailto:darkta...@intervalsignals.org>>
Date: Tue., 11 Dec. 2018, 07:41
Subject: [darktable-user] darktable stable and unstable on the
same machine - profile question
To: darktable-user <darktable-user@lists.darktable.org
<mailto:darktable-user@lists.darktable.org>>
Hi,
currently I am considering to move away from Linuxmint (too many
issues
with my machine) and while looking through the Manjaro/Arch Repos I
found darktable-git as well as darktable 2.4.x.
This raised the following question:
Is there a possibility to have both versions installed on the same
machine to run them independently from each other?
Do they use the same profile - and more important: is there a way
to let
them operate on their specific profile?
That would enable me (and possibly others) to do my work with
darktable
stable version and also run the development version from time to
time -
especially at this time of the year with the release candidates
around -
and help report bugs etc.
--
regards
Bernhard
https://www.bilddateien.de
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