[elephant-devel] Some thoughts/Questions from testing

[Robert L. Read]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:55 +0300, Alex Mizrahi wrote:
>  GT> What do you all think about allowing two different versions of
>  GT> Elephant to be installed at the same time?
> 
> that's pretty easy.
> 
>  let's suppose that "stable" elephant is somewhere on your 
> asdf:*central-registry* path.
> but you want to load "unstable" version that resides in 
> "~/elephant-unstable/"
> 
> just to (pushnew #p"~/elephant-unstable/" asdf:*central-registry*)
> and load elephant as normal -- asdf will first look into unstable directory, 
> and find packages there.

This is a great little hack; I somehow new it but still waste time
swiveling my asd symbolic links.

> 
> if you're doing switching all the time, you can add a function into your rc 
> file to do aforementioned trick, create a script or whatever. 
> 
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