Thanks for the reminder, Oeyvind.

I do routinely place my new versions in uniquely named folders.

In the case of my 5.06 "installation", everything is in a *single* 
directory (no subdirectories).

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oeyvind Brandtsegg" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:55 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: 5.09 Windows float installer anomoly


> Just as a tip,
> my method for testing different versions of Csound, and keeping
> several versions on my system is by renaming.
> So my "current" Csound installation resides in "Program Files/Csound".
> Whenever I want to test another version, I rename my current Csound
> version to (for example) "Csound_currently_in_normal_use", and then
> make a new empty directory at "Program Files/Csound" and copy the test
> version to there. If I use/test a binary installer, the only thing I
> *must* remember is to rename my currently working version to something
> else before installing.
> Without a relatively safe method of going back and forth between
> versions like this, I would never dare to test new versions, in fear
> of messing up my production system.
>
> Oeyvind
>
> 2008/9/16 Art Hunkins :
>> Unusual new behavior upon doing above install.
>>
>> I have a special pared-down version of of Csound 5.06 installed in a 
>> single
>> folder, with my .csd files running (in Lettuce) completely within this
>> folder. No environment variables are needed or desired. Everything works
>> fine.
>>
>> I install 5.09 from the installer in a different location, complete
>> (unfortunately) with a set of environment variables. These variables,
>> especially OPCODEDIR, prevent my 5.06 system from running. The 5.09
>> environment variables take over, look for everything in the 5.09 folders,
>> and tell me everything is an incompatible version. (I expect that it's
>> OPCODEDIR pointing to 5.09.)
>>
>> To my knowledge this never happened before. The environment variables did
>> *not* "take over" my self-contained 5.06 installation.
>>
>> I really need to be able to run from a single folder regardless of what
>> other Csound installations may be on a given machine, or regardless of 
>> what
>> the environment variables are (I'm in XP here).
>>
>> My understanding is that first Csound looks for everything in the current
>> directory, and only if it does not find what it needs there, looks 
>> elsewhere
>> (according to environment variables). This does not seem to be happening
>> with 5.09.
>>
>> Please someone (Michael?) straighten me out.
>>
>> Art Hunkins
>>
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