On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Oliver Betz <list...@gmx.net> wrote: > when I use PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP, new versions of the application don't > overwrite existing libraries. > > For example, running a new version of ExifTool (for Windows) will fail > then because the libraries of the old version are kept. > > I need then to delete the contents of the directory specified by > PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP to have the new libraries unpacked. > > Running different versions of ExifTool with the same location of > PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP doesn't seem to be possible this way. > > Is this the intended behavior? >
Yes. Use of PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP is discouraged. Without setting PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP, PAR uses version and application > specific subdirectories, so I wonder whether it is possible to use a > directory tree different from temp, but with subdirectories. > It's not possible. Cheers, Roderich
