[Ardour-Users] Older Source Code Downloads?

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 4 February 2010 at 19:13, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Nettingsmeier?= <nettings at stackingdwarves.net> wrote:

> if you really must, you can browse the subversion repository and find
> 
> the appropriate "tag", e.g. for 2.7.1 you'd go to
> 
> http://subversion.ardour.org/svn/ardour2/tags/2.7.1/
> 
> download it with "svn checkout <url> ardour-<version>".

Got it.

> but think twice - this is open source, so the (volunteer)
> developers will listen to your reports with a lot more interest
> when you're using the latest version.

I'm just needed to figure out what's "wrong" with my distro.  It
turns out that it was an add-on package for the Wiimote that was
incompatible with the latest version.  I don't have a Wii, and
disabling that was a sensible choice for me.  Just recently there
was an update to ardour which didn't want to build on my formerly
ancient system, which was no fault of ardour's.

> since ardour2 is in feature freeze, it's rare that really nasty
> new bugs are being introduced, so the latest is almost always
> better than some previous one at this point.

Yup, the problem is rarely ardour, usually me, sometimes my
distro.

> and if you need that old version to find out when a particular
> bug was introduced, you'll get a lot more fine-grained
> information if you bisect single svn commits (you can update to
> a particular release with the "svn update -r <release_number>"
> command.

Thanks for the useful info....

--
Kevin