[Wine] Re: EZ way to test Wine versions

Daniel Skorka skorka at gmx.net
Mon Mar 19 00:51:01 CDT 2007


Jim Showalter <jshowalter at spam.gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm looking for an easy way to test software under different versions
> of Wine.  Is there a way to have more than one working version of Wine
> installed concurrently?
> 
> I maintain two apps in the AppDB and have suffered a regression in one
> of them.  So it would be really nice if I could easily switch back and
> forth between versions of Wine, without uninstalling/reinstalling.

Keep wine inside the respective source directories (i.e. don't do 'make
install'). Use WINEPREFIX (man wine) to keep the installations seperate.
A search in the archives would have told you that, BTW.

Daniel
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