Re: Using PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP prevents library updates

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Oliver Betz <[email protected]> wrote:

> when I use PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP, new versions of the application don't
> overwrite existing libraries.
>
> For example, running a new version of ExifTool (for Windows) will fail
> then because the libraries of the old version are kept.
>
> I need then to delete the contents of the directory specified by
> PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP to have the new libraries unpacked.
>
> Running different versions of ExifTool with the same location of
> PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP doesn't seem to be possible this way.
>
> Is this the intended behavior?
>

Yes. Use of PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP is discouraged.

Without setting PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP, PAR uses version and application
> specific subdirectories, so I wonder whether it is possible to use a
> directory tree different from temp, but with subdirectories.
>

It's not possible.

Cheers, Roderich