"user profile" in testing

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 08/17/2014 06:54 PM, Terrence Enger wrote:
> It is possible to direct LibreOffice to a particular user profile
> directory using the command line parameter
> -env:UserInstallation=<URL>, and I have grown into the habit of using
> a separate user profile for each bug report I look at.
>
> I think that this parameter inhibits the usual conversion of user
> profiles across versions of LibreOffice.  Is this right?

No; what happens exactly is:  Whenever at LO 4 start-up no LO 4 user 
profile exists (e.g. because -env:UserInstallation points to a directory 
that does not exist) and a LO 3 user profile exists at the canonic 
location (i.e., not taking into account any -env:UserInstallation) and 
the LO 3 user profile does not contain a MIGRATED4 marker file, then the 
MIGRATED4 marker file is written into the LO 3 user profile and data 
from the LO 3 user profile is migrated into the newly created LO 4 user 
profile.

> Is it a reportable bug if LibreOffice crashes when using a user
> profile created by an earlier version?  ( I tend to the position that
> every crash is a bug, but I can well see that a lot of bugs
> "RESOLVED WONTFIX" could become annoying. )

Such crashes should generally be considered bugs that should be fixed. 
An exception is when the user profile data that causes the crash can 
only have been produced by a "non-official" LO version (e.g. a nightly 
snapshot).

Stephan