Re: Old build environments

[Carl Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:02 PM Michael Käppler <xmichael-k@web.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> a few days ago I wanted to try how some functionality in LilyPond
> worked, when it was added long
> time ago. (about 15 years ago, around 2.7.x or 2.8.x)
> Not very surprisingly I could not even get the code to compile with my
> current build setup.
>
> That made we wonder if it would be a good idea to store a build
> environment that is proven to work
> with the code base every, say, minor version bump.
>

I actually think that is the motivation for GUB.  You could checkout the
GUB repository for the appropriate date, and the LilyPond code should build
under GUB.

Have you tried that?

Carl

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