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On 13 Mar, Robert F. Beeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> That sounds interesting and I think I would like to test it.
> Does someone know how to install two versions of ConTeXt on one TeX-system 
> so that I could say
> texexec --pdf example
> for a run in the stable version and
> texexecb --pdf example
> for a run in the beta version.
> 
> Is there a way to achieve this or must I have two TeX-systems each running 
> one of the ConTeXt versions.
> Does someone have Perl-scripts or anything in the way to install a beta 
> version that it can coexist with the stable version.
> 
> Or how do you ConTeXt-gurus do it? Are you ever using the newest beta version?
> 
> Greets
>     Robert

You could put the Context stuff in a separate tree, and then you would
need two versions of just this tree. Switching between these trees might
be as simple as redefining an environment variable TEXMFLOCAL

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