Re: lilypond 2.12 / 2.13

[Mats Bengtsson]

Jonathan Kulp wrote:
>     On 20.12.2009, at 17:45, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
>
>
>         Hi,
>
>         Is there an (easy) way to have both lilypond 2.12.x (stable)
>         and lilypond 2.13.x (devel.) installed and useable on my
>         system ? I'm always curious to try and test the latest
>         features and bugfixes, but for distribution and sharing of
>         lilypond sourcecode it is probably a better idea to use the
>         stable release.
>
>         I'm running linux fedora 12.
>
> I added a section about this to the Contributor's Guide a while back. 
> Here's a link:
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/concurrent-stable-and-development-versions#concurrent-stable-and-development-versions

An alternative, in case you don't compile LilyPond yourself, is to 
install the two versions at two different locations, for example in 
~/2.12 and ~/2.13, using:
sh lilypond-2.12.3-1.linux-x86.sh --prefix=$HOME/2.12
sh lilypond-2.13.9-1.linux-x86.sh --prefix=$HOME/2.13

Then, you could either call lilypond using the full path, 
~/2.12/bin/lilypond or you could set the $PATH in one shell to include 
$HOME/2.12/bin and in another shell to include $HOME/2.13/bin (you can 
easily define an alias that adds the corresponding path).

   /Mats