Stephan Bergmann wrote (28-11-12 11:23)
On 11/28/2012 10:40 AM, Cor Nouws wrote:
Stephan Bergmann wrote (24-11-12 11:40)
Given that testing migration from existing user profiles generally
requires manual activity anyway (to remove potentially existing MIGRATED
flag files from existing user profiles), I wonder whether it would not
make most sense to drop LOdev's special handling of user profiles
Special in the sense that is uses a special path?
(Sorry, I missed that)
Yes. (And I had -- erroneously? -- assumed that LOdev installations did
not store their user profiles centrally, at ~/.config/lodev etc., but
locally within the LOdev's installation tree, via a relative
UserInstallation URL in the bootstrap ini-file.)
There is the suggestion when you perform parallel installation, to use a
variable to place the user profile in the install path ;-)
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
And isn't this what is the point in the discussion, to provide an easy
way (i.e UI) in those LOdevs to import the existing profile for testing
minor/micro releases?
If LOdev versions indeed store their user profiles centrally (at
~/.config/lodev/{3,4} ? correct me if I'm wrong),
(I don't correct you)
then the scenario of
reusing an existing user profile from a previous LOdev version N1 in a
new LOdev version N2, where N2 >= N1 and N1 and N2 are either both 3.x.x
or both 4.x.x versions, is already covered by the easy case of requiring
no manual preparation.
:-) Hmm, but one might be interested to test with both new and
imported user profiles.
And for various dev-releases import over and again from the existing
stable release.
Hmm, that means that having the same path ~/.config/lodev/# for all
LOdev-versions in a series is not useful too.
And then introducing different paths... leaving testers that do not have
the knowledge of details with lots of older profiles... Hmm..
I think we end up in trying to educate testers as much as possible.
Regards,
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- Cor
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