On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, at 22:57, Bernhard wrote: > - use a different folder to import the pictures from => makes sense to > avoid incompatible xmps
If you have a lot of image files, you might want to consider using symlinks for the files rather than actually copying them all... alternately, you could disable the creation of XMP files in the "test" version and use the same directory, but then you wouldn't be testing XMP-related stuff... > Does the --configdir option also influence the .cache folder? (although > I don't think that matters) No, there's a --cachedir argument for that. Try 'man darktable' for more options. FWIW, I've never had an issue sharing the same cache between versions, but keep in mind that whatever the last thing you did with any version will affect the thumbnail, etc. > I have to deal now with compiling binaries etc. and find out about --prefix. > Until now I never did something else than install from repo or ppa. It's possible that you could just modify the paths in the packages rather than compiling yourself, but building yourself might not end up being much more effort, and might be more interesting. :) -- jys ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
