a request out of bugzilla

[Derek Atkins]

Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb at becket.net> writes:

>> Having multiple builds is relatively easy.  I've got /opt/gnucash-cvs,
>> /opt/gnucash-1.8, and /opt/gnucash-g2 on my system.  I can run
>> whichever version I want by specifying the appropriate path.  It works
>> quite well for a number of people.
>
> Right, but I have limited numbers of computers at my disposal.  It's
> the overhead of building the lastest cvs that is the obstacle.

Well, the good news is that you can have multiple build trees on one
computer..  The other good news is that the release branch doesn't
change often enough at this point to have to rebuild more than once
every, oh, 2ish weeks...

> 3-6 months definitely counts as "regular releases" in my book.

Good to know.  :)

> Thomas

-derek

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