Hi, I'm trying to develop an extension so I thought it would be a good idea to install the .7z beta 1.0 release alongside the latest stable version. The problem I encountered is that by default both versions share the same AppData/Roaming/inkscape folder. As far as I can tell extensions are not automatically cross compatible and I would imagine that the preference file is significantly different between the two. I can't figure out how to select a new folder for the preferences, extensions, ecc.. because the paths specified under edit/preferences/system are not editable. Is this a bug? What am I missing?

Thanks

Preferences should be compatible across the versions, so you do not need to worry (if you should find any issues, feel free to report them). It's actually what I do locally, and I even share my default preferences with all the development versions I have flying around.

However you can also change the profile directory by using the INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR environment variable.

Thank you, that's good to know. But is there no way to have two separate profile directories for my two different installations?

Only by setting said environment variable.

You could create a command line wrapper from example, if you always want to use a separate profile directory.