[libreoffice-users] Re: Dead End or Evolution?

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:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:51
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> 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
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