rather, a seriously misleading misstatement on your part. ~False.
On the contrary, exactly right. Installing an official build is not a prerequisite for installing a cutting edge build. some public version must have been installed (even if it has later been removed) for a cutting-edge build to function.
The above is incorrect. There is no need for some public version to have been installed for a cutting edge build to function. Talking about activation as a premise for saying that an official build is a prerequisite is a red herring, because cutting edge builds and official builds are exactly the same when it comes to activation. In either case, if you haven't activated previously you need to activate. Both use exactly the same activation process. If you've activated using either of them, you've activated for both of them. Consider the following: 1. On a virgin machine, launch the latest cutting edge build. 2. It launches, and asks for activation. Activate. 3. Run happily. Compare that to 1. On a virgin machine, launch the latest official build. 2. It launches and asks for activation. Activate. 3. Run happily. Previously installing a cutting edge build is no more a prerequisite for installing an official build than the other way around. Neither is a prerequisite for the other. As I noted, you must, of course, ensure that your Windows machine has all necessary Windows prerequisites installed. But that's just as true for the portable installations of official builds as it is for cutting edge builds. If you don't mind messing with Windows installer, one way of having an installer take care of prerequisites for you is to install the .exe form of an official build. But that in no way is a prerequisite, that is, required. If the virgin (to Manifold) machine on which you install has a typically contemporary mix of software on it, in many cases it already will have .NET and a redistributable already on it. If not, it's quick to install the redistributable, with no need to do that by installing the .exe form of an official build.
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