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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: meierch on April 16, 2010, 04:32:03 am

Title: Parallel usage of EA 7.5 and 8 on a eap repository
Post by: meierch on April 16, 2010, 04:32:03 am

At work we have a bunch of models and quite a large EA user base. Is it possible to use EA7.5 and EA 8 in parallel on the same model? We actually work with replicas ...

Title: Re: Parallel usage of EA 7.5 and 8 on a eap reposi
Post by: Geert Bellekens on April 16, 2010, 03:53:22 pm

Christian,

I believe there should be no issues.
I'm currently working with the 8.0.855 where the other users are still on 7.5.850.

Geert

Title: Re: Parallel usage of EA 7.5 and 8 on a eap reposi
Post by: meierch on April 16, 2010, 09:41:21 pm

Thanks Geert

I think it would be good to have such information somewhere in the release notes.

Title: Re: Parallel usage of EA 7.5 and 8 on a eap reposi
Post by: beginner on April 16, 2010, 09:51:11 pm

The last time they had major issues with the database for a version change they did announce that. It was with the audit which once turned on would have fixed you to the new release but without you were able to live with both versions in parallel. This time there was no such announcement. Though it would be nice to read it explicitly in the release notes.

b.

Title: Re: Parallel usage of EA 7.5 and 8 on a eap reposi
Post by: Shawn Stepper on April 20, 2010, 09:19:18 am

When I tried this before I found that the spelling errors that 8.0 (Beta) flagged showed up as static colored text in 7.5. I filed a bug about it that was hopefully fixed in the final version, but you might want to check.

Title: Re: Parallel usage of EA 7.5 and 8 on a eap reposi
Post by: meierch on April 24, 2010, 05:36:20 am

Sparx support said:

Ideally it would be better to have all users running v8.0. However, there should be no major problems with running a mixed environment.

I hope this is of help.