multiple / parallel installations of gnumeric on one system?

2021-07-01 Thread b. via gnumeric-list
  hi @all, i'm still relatively new here, pls. excuse if i am not well adapted to the manners, i started trying small code changes in gnumeric (against rounding errors) it works quite well (compiles, and produces different results almost as intended), but i have one wish / one idea / would

Re: multiple / parallel installations of gnumeric on one system?

2021-07-01 Thread Morten Welinder
Gnumeric, when run from the compile tree, is independent of any installed version of Gnumeric. That does most of what you need unless you need your own version of Goffice or other libraries at the same time. In that case it can be done with "--prefix=/somewhere" in the configuration phase. It's

Re: multiple / parallel installations of gnumeric on one system?

2021-07-01 Thread John Denker via gnumeric-list
On 7/1/21 1:43 AM, b. via gnumeric-list asked: > to be able to run two independent different installations in > parallel. have one window open with 'old' and one with 'new' and > switch between them as i need or like. 1) Yes, this is possible. I have it set up that way. Rationale: -- This allows