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actually getting builds

Posted Sep 26, 2013 20:14 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: actually getting builds by hummassa
Parent article: GNOME 3.10 Released

Possibly, but then 3.10 needs to know to look at 3.9's directory, 3.8's, 3.7's, etc. Maybe GNOME could use a "Trial session" mode where it stores all of the config changes in another place and then asks "commit/abandon" on logout?

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Posted Sep 26, 2013 20:46 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Or even simpler: Canary build (like Chrome is doing). It can be parallel-installed and you can test stuff when it's developing, but it does not affect your regular life at all. I really miss Chrome Canary on Linux, hope they'll add it at some point.

actually getting builds

Posted Sep 26, 2013 22:15 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

chrome-dev, chrome-beta and chrome-regular on linux can run side-by-side (different config directories)... but their deb packages conflict with one another, so you have to make some magic to install all of them...