Paul Reeves schrieb:

>On Monday 10 October 2005 11:46, Carsten Schäfer wrote:
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>>What is the right way to install (and get it work) Firebird 1.5 and
>>Firebird 2.0 on the same machine ?
>>I don't find any working description.
>>Only changing ports is not working.
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>I'm afraid that I have never tried. I find it easier to uninstall one
>version and install another rather than run two versions simultaneously.
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>>Removing Registry entries ?
>>Why does Firebird install Registry entrys when it doesn't need them ?
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>Firebird doesn't (shouldn't?) need them, but installers and admin tools
>do.
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>>Can both exist as a service ?
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>This is probably where you are having problems. I haven't looked recently
>but I would guess that instsvc is using the same registry entry for each
>version.
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>I would recommend trying to run one as a service and one as an
>application.
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>What are you trying to achieve, btw?
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I'm developing software on top of Firebird.
So I want to test Firebird 2.0 to see improvements as early as possible.
Of course all my customers use Firebird 1.5.
So i want to connect to FB 2 and FB1.5 databases on the same machine.
I know i can restore a FB 1.5 backup to FB 2 but i cannot do it the
other way (FB2 -> FB1.5),
and thats often needed.
One as service and one as application would be sufficient, but it's not
simple like only changing ports.

mfg
Carsten