Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Testing latest version without breaking my 'production' setup

[el.pescado <el....@ga...>]

Hi,
 
The "best" solution would be to setup a virtual machine for testing purposes. That's what I've been using for testing Mac releases. VM provide a real isolation, but has some downsides: it consumes large amount of disk space (that's problem on SSDs) and usually running anything in a VM gets you worse performance. Great thing about VMs is that you can easily create snapshots of virtual machine and later roll back to saved state.
 
Maybe using another user account would suffice? If you create another user account to test Hydrogen, it won't be able to mess up your regular setup.
 
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W dniu 2017-10-04 08:22:38 użytkownik Thijs van severen <thi...@gm...> napisał:
Hi all
 
I haven't had  a lot of time to test h2 lately but I would like to see if I can move to the most recent branch on the laptop i use for my live performances.
 
The thing is that i just cant afford to break the setup on this laptop since i need it every other weekend or so.  
On the other hand i cant fully test h2 if i only run it on my other laptop (other OS version, other apps, other config ...)
 
So my question is : what would be the easiest and most reliable way to switch between versions without messing up my live setup?
 
I guess I would need to move my config file, song file, drumkits (anything else?) back and forth each time I switch. But that sounds like an even better way to mess things up ;-)
Some time ago there was a discussion about making paths configurable, but even that might not be the best solution.
 
Note that it would be ok for me if I could just take a 'snapshot' of my current setup and duplicate it somewhere on the laptop and use that to experiment on with the latest h2.
 
Any ideas?
 
Grtz
Thijs