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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/28/2014 4:51 PM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:59:20PM -0700, Jake wrote:
> [...]
>> So i deleted the folder entirely with rm -rf ~/kicad_sources/kicad-lib.bzr/
>>
>> and when i ran the script again, now it seems to be working.
>>
>> i don't know anything about how bzr works, i am just competent with
>> git, so hopefully some bash scripting and bzr experts can think of a
>> way to restructure the install script to more consistently deal with
>> incomplete installations.  I think that a less intrepid user than me
>> (imagine!) would either have to delete all of ~/kicad_sources and
>> start over, or give up entirely.
>>
>> please let me know if i should post this problem in the bugtracker
>> or something else to make it easier to deal with, or if i have done
>> it right.
> 
> Bazaar is virtually dead. Its userbase decrease day by day.
> There are some bugs in it that presumably will never be fixed.
> 
> For example, and this seems to be this case, if you stop a "bzr up"
> command abruptly, chances are that it will not be able to recover by
> himself, and you have to delete all and restart downloading afresh.
> 
> I keep on thinking that a git migration of all kicad project repos should
> be considered for sometime in the (near?) future...

Not until after the next stable release.  Then we can discuss the matter
further.  I personally don't have a preference other than I don't want
to be guy that has to do all of the work.  I was around when we made the
switch from subversion/sourceforge to bazaar/launchpad.  It was not a
trivial amount of work.

> 
> bye
>