On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Dmytro O. Redchuk <brownian....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed 14 Jul 2010, 11:54 Urs Liska wrote: >> Hello list, > Hello Urs! > >> I would like to have several versions of LilyPond installed at the >> same time to be able to test lilypond code in different versions. >> What would be the best way to accomplish this on Windows XP and >> Ubuntu Linux? >> I recall having read something about a renaming/symlink solution on >> Linux but don't seem to find it anymore. > Here is in short how i am "managing" it under Linux: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-06/msg00298.html > > I do believe that under windows i would use junction[1] for this, but i have > not even tried. > >> >> Any tips? >> Many thanks >> Urs > > ___________________________ > 1. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx > > -- > Dmytro O. Redchuk > Bug Squad > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
I wrote a passage in the Contributor's Guide about this a while back. Read section 3.8 to see how I do it. I only have two versions at once, though. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/concurrent-stable-and-development-versions Jon -- Jonathan Kulp http://www.jonathankulp.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
