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[Martin Janitschke <imp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 23.02.2014 23:21, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> Guys, thanks for your help. It works great now.
> 
> I just would like to point out one thing.
> 
> Talking about linux users, the kicad install script represents the
> way all linux users arrive to use and update kicad. I was wondering
> if it was a good idea to actually give to users (modifying this
> script) a two week or three week old version of kicad. In this way
> normal users will not experience this king of problems. At the end
> of the day we call this version "Release"....Good idea? bad idea?
> better idea?
So you would end up with a version that's 3 weeks old - it'll be the
same as if you've compiled the newest revision 3 weeks ago.
This won't change anything.

Instead, tagging "known good" revisions and building those will work -
but this is only slightly better as building the newest revision,
since new features are implemented in other branches. The product
repository should only get bug fixes and merges from feature branches
(ideally).
Thus it should be fine to build from it the most time.

In contrast to this, lp:kicad/stable might be an option too for
building (this is where most package maintainer for various
distributions build from), but this would require constant merging
from product->stable (in addition to merging from a feature branch
into product).
Since testing was renamed to product and the use of feature branches,
the stable branch is obsolete IMHO.

In addition to all this, automated tests and a test procedure would be
nice to determine the state of the current revision.

Bye,
imp
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