Given that one of the new features is:
Would that be the easiest way to work with the beta (perhaps in combination with the GRAMPSHOME environmental variable), since it’s a temporary thing?
It depends on your operating system and environment.
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@GeorgeWilmes This doesn’t answer your question, but if you were curious about the changelog item you quoted, here’s the pull request for it. From what I understand, it changes the check that previously prevented Gramps from running because of a missing “.git” directory in the source tarball.
Are there any detailed (yet simple to follow) instructions for how to run (not build and run) from source? All I could find in the wiki was an old set of instructions for running Gramps 4.0 on Windows using Python 2.7.3.
Do you want to run it from a git repository or unzipped tar file?
I would prefer the unzipped tar file, though I should eventually learn how to use git. Either way, I would write a simple shell script to do the required steps plus copy my current database, custom filters, and in files into the environment.
You can get various formats (including zip) here: Release v6.0.0-beta1 · gramps-project/gramps · GitHub
Yes, I have the tar file, just want to learn how to run from source without impacting my current install. In other words I want to treat it as a throwaway since it’s just a beta.
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