VANEK Petr wrote: >>OK, I've been hearing about all the fun of the cvs builds, >>but I'm actually >>producing a few things using 1.1.5 I'd like to play with the >>cvs, but I'm >>afraid I will end up with something unworkable for the jobs >>I've committed to >>do. I don't have the luxury of another machine to play with - >>how can I isolate >>an installation of cvs versions for 'experimentation'? >> >> > >when you download cvs sources into any directory. >you can do there: >1) make -f Makefile.dist >2)./configure >--prefix=/home/yourhomedir/place_where_you_want_to_install_cvs_version >3) make >4) make install > >you can run then >/home/yourhomedir/place_where_you_want_to_install_cvs_version/bin/scribus > >e.g. >I've got following situation: >gentoo ebuild 1.1.5 installed in /usr >daily cvs in /home/subzero/devel/SCRIBUS >1.0.1 in /home/subzero/devel/1scribus > >petr > > At the same time, I would say that there is no reason to fear the cvs versions (of Scribus). The worst that could happen would be the need for a 'make uninstall', but I've never had to do that. Just keep your non-cvs version handy to go back to if/when needed. Rarely I've seen messages on the list where something inadvertently gets broken in a new cvs version, but that gets fixed as soon as it's recognized. My way of keeping up is to download from cvs only every few days at most -- if there's any big change in a new version someone will indicate that on the list.
Greg Pittman
