[GRASSLIST:5517] Re: 5.0 and 5.1 on same machine?

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:36:53AM +0100, Radim Blazek wrote:
> 
> On Monday 03 February 2003 09:38 pm, Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
> > I'm thinking about doing work on GRASS 5.1, but need a stable version to do
> > regular work with. Is it possible to have GRASS 5.0.x and GRASS 5.1.x on
> > the same machine (cygwin)?
> 
> I know nothing about GRASS/CYGWIN, on Linux there is no problem,
> some notes:
> - you can run 5.0 and 5.1 at the same time (current region (WIND)
>   is shared so run modules in both at the same time may be problem)
> 
> - XDRIVER is modified, some modules (d.what.*) are not backward/forward
>   compatible. Unfortunately management of XDRIVERs is not separated,
>   you must not select XDRIVER started by other version.

An update here:
 Meanwhile the management of XDRIVERs *is* separated between 5.0 and 5.1.
 You can use now the same monitor names in a parallel 5.0/5.1 session,
 no more tricks required.
 
Markus