On 20 May 2020, at 1:08, Randall Gellens wrote:
I thought Marc wanted both instances running simultaneously (for example, one could be an active client applying rules and managing things more or less autonomously, while the other is used interactively for handling specific messages.) To run multiple instances at the same time, I think a VM or separate machine or different user would work. To run different instances serially (only one at a time), moving files back and forth via a script would work (Years back, I used a script that triggered when I switched Location, that killed the Retrospect daemon, renamed the active Retrospect configuration file to a specific name based on where it had come from, then renamed a Location-specific version of the Retrospect configuration file to be the active one. It used extended file attributes to mark each file with the name of Location it went with. That way, when I moved my laptop between home and work, the correct Retrospect configuration was active.)
On a single machine, I reckon having different MacOS users is easier and safer than swapping config files back and forth. Though profiles à la Firefox (essentiell if running things like Selenium) would be a good idea.
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