dovecot - May 2011 - Running 1.x and 2. x on same machine

Hello,

When building from source, is it possible to use "make install" to
switch
between version 1.x and 2.x on the same machine (just for testing)?  Do both 
versions install the same binaries?  Is configuration from 2.x backward 
compatible with 1.x? (so we can have the newest configuration files on our 
system without bothering to have a second set of 1.x config files)


Or instead should we be changing something like the installation and config 
directorie for one of the versions when we install it (how?).

Thanks for advice!!!!

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 00:21 -0700, email builder wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When building from source, is it possible to use "make install"
to switch
> between version 1.x and 2.x on the same machine (just for testing)?  
I do that all the time.
> Do both versions install the same binaries?
No, but as long as you don't use the other one's extra binaries it
doesn't matter.
> Is configuration from 2.x backward 
> compatible with 1.x? (so we can have the newest configuration files on our 
> system without bothering to have a second set of 1.x config files)
v2.0 can read most v1.x config files, but it'll give a lot of warnings
about it. Their default configs are anyway in different locations. I
just keep them both:

v1.x: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
v2.x: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> Or instead should we be changing something like the installation and config
> directorie for one of the versions when we install it (how?).
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-2.0