On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 15:05 -0400, Bridger Dyson-Smith wrote:
Hi all -
Per the recent thread about installing, I was hoping to convince some of you to share your experiences installing and running BaseX. Whether you use Mac OS, Windows, a Linux, or something else: how are you installing and running BaseX?
Here, i download the latest zip, unzip it, rename basex to e.g. BaseX95-20210227 and make a symbolic link "basex" to point to it, so that any scripts i have on the server always use the newest (or, if i roll back, which ever one i want, but i don't think i've ever had to roll back).
I have to avoid using the config file in the distribution, but use ~/.basex instead, so that configuration is maintained.
So i think this is very similar to your approach; ~/packages/basex has half a dozen distributions under it, including "github".
Linux: CentOS 7 (server) and Mageia 8 (desktop)