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kofman
kofman

Reputation: 106

Is it possible to have several versions of hyperledger composer on the same machine?

Is it possible to have several versions of composer on same (mac) machine? For instance, I want to experiment with the latest version (v0.17.x) while being able to work with my older projects that run on the stable release (0.16.x)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 85

Answers (1)

david_k
david_k

Reputation: 5868

Yes. For example create a directory called ~/16.x (ie off your home directory), change to that directory and use npm to install composer-cli, composer-playground and composer-rest-server. but don't use the '-g' option. This will install into the 0.16.x directory. Now create another directory for example ~/17.x and do the same but install the @next versions. Again make sure you don't use the '-g' option. Now you can then point your path to either the 16.x version or the 17.x version in a command window depending on which one you want to target, for example if I want to use 16.x I would do export PATH=~/16.x/node_modules/.bin:$PATH then check by doing composer -v The thing you cannot do is easily swap the file system card store used. So I either clear out the card store before swapping versions or I rename the card stores eg. mv ~/.composer ~/.composer_16 mv ~/.composer_17 ~/.composer to swap a 17.x card store in place of a 16.x card store Obviously if I don't have one to start with then it will be created when I use the various commands.

Upvotes: 1

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