E16.8 is the only version that will coexist with E17 under the same install prefix. You can still run older versions of E16, but they have to be installed in a different prefix from E17.
On Fri 11 Mar 2005, Paul Moss wrote: > I was just reading through and I noticed under the FAQ question: > Q: I have E16 installed. Do I need to uninstall it so I can install E17? > > It says that they can happily co-exist as long as they are installed > in different directories (/usr and /usr/local). I remember a little > while ago some messages about E16.8 being the only version which can > safely exist along with E17. I know that someone else probably knows > better about this. Maybe they were just talking about default > installations (as in no --prefix). Perhaps someone can fill in the > blanks for us? I just thought I would mention it. > > Paul Moss > > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:43:40 +0000, Valtteri Vainikka > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > First of all, I'd like to greet everyone here - this is my first post > > on this mailing list. I've been been writing and maintaining the > > lude.net/edocs guide with Tom Kuther for quite a while already. > > Recently we were asked by Benr if we wanted to write some users > > documentation for E17. So here it is - it's not the final version, but > > most of the text itself is done. It's based on the edocs text but > > modified quite heavily to look and feel more professional. This is > > just the text itself though, it will obviously need to be turned into > > a more eye-friendly page with perhaps some screenshots and so on. > > > > The point of this guide is to provide user-level documentation for the > > E17 windowmanager and the most popular EFL based applications. We're > > fully aware that everything is going to change and so on, the point is > > to have a guide that would evolve (maintained with the new CMS system) > > alongside everything in CVS. This doesn't mean E17 should be supported > > or anything similar (there's a pretty clear disclaimer of the current > > situation). This guide is intended to help the early-adaptors/testers > > with getting started with E17, it's not meant as a final users guide > > of course. > > > > Me and Tom aren't coders, I'm sure you can see that by reading the > > guide, so there may be some inaccurate stuff there right now. So what > > I'm asking is if you could read through the guide and perhaps provide > > some feedback on what needs to be improved and changed. I'm including > > the current version of the raw text as an attachment. You can also > > find us on IRC, my nick is vrln and Tom is gimpel - we're both on > > freenode IRC pretty often and hang around at #edevelop. > > > > cheers, > > > > Valtteri > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- Ibukun Olumuyiwa http://xcomputerman.com "God is dead." - Nietzche "Nietzche is dead." - God ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
