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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is my goal that someone can install Ubuntu or Debian, type sudo apt-get
install kicad, and get a usable kicad from the last six months.

It is also my goal that they can link to a PPA, and get any bzr commit of
any feature mix installed, and their package manager will tell them when
updates have happened.

Contextual Electronics is an upcoming video course using Kicad, and it
comes out mid November, and I'm on track to have public autobuilds for
every bzr commit for Windows, OSX, and Ubuntu before then.  I  am down to
one or two bugs to squash in Jenkins' bzr plugin!

Adam Wolf
Wayne and Layne LLC
On Oct 18, 2013 9:50 AM, "Javier Serrano" <javier.serrano.pareja@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> I do see value in it.  Only you can say if that value makes it worth your
>> time.  Folks
>> encountering KiCad for the first time often will install from the repo.
>>  Only later will
>> they yearn for the new goodies, which can be obtained only by building
>> from recent source.
>>
>> A daily PPA like system is therefore more valuable, since it has
>> potential to address the
>> needs of both the new user as well as the seasoned one.
>>
>
> I agree with this assessment today. The added value you get by building
> from recent sources is huge because the project is in a phase of massive
> development. However, one would hope :) that with time more and more of the
> features one actually needs to design simple and complex PCBs efficiently
> are there, working flawlessly and with a clean and modular code base. At
> that point, the added value of building from recent sources should
> decrease, at least for most users. OTOH, there will always be a (big I
> think) set of potential users who will only use KiCad if installing it is
> very simple, as in "I click here and it just works". I think having Ubuntu
> and Debian packages in the official package repositories will be very
> important then, to get (many) more users, which will then result in all
> sorts of Good Things, including a better KiCad. BTW, I consider easy
> installation on Windows and Mac very important for the same reasons, and I
> take the opportunity to thank all those who are working on this side of
> things. It's not easy and it can be quite unrewarding.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Javier
>