On 09/20/2011 01:06 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Oops, I lied. > > It is OO.o 2.4.1, OOo-dev 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.3.3 all > running side-by-side in a single configuration of Windows > XP. (Microsoft Office 2003 and the ODF Converters are > also running there.) > > LibreOffice 3.4.3 is running on a Vista configuration [;<). > > - Dennis
I would not recommend doing that on Windows (fine in linux if you change bootstraprc to point to different profiles) as you'll experience registry issues. I highly recommend that you install using the parallel installation method: <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel> particularly for comparison testing to avoid the registry issues. I have to admit that I sometimes do this as well (non-parallel install method), but expect the registry conflicts, and ensure that each version is not using the same profile. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:51 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution? > > I keep multiple versions running in order to provide QA and > interoperability testing. > > These are all on Windows, but I notice that I have OO.o 2.4.1, > OOo-dev 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.4.3 all installed on the same > Virtual PC running Windows XP. That is not where I do all of > my work (I am still on LibreOffice 3.3.2 for a serious writing > deliverable right now), so I may simply have not seen the problems. > > The one annoying limitation is that (1) I can only have one > default application that launches when I double-click on a file, > and it is the OO.o 2.4.1 that was installed first in the 3-install > case (which is fine), and (2) I can't add the other versions to > the context menu for alternate ways to open the files because the > programs all have the same file name. So to use documents in the > other two versions, I must open the version first, then open the > documents from within the version I am running. (This is > apparently a Windows limitation.) > > There may be other "conflicts" but, in my forensic work, this is > what I notice most. > > - Dennis ... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
