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[Strontium <strntydog@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam,

Yes, on Linux one has to choose between Nightly/Stable if using the 
PPA.  The other option is building KiCad yourself, which I can do, but 
many can't/won't.  I was not sure of the situation on other OS's if you 
can install Nightly/Stable simultaneously on Mac, then its more reason 
why the Linux distributions should follow suit.

Steven

On 22/09/17 10:01, Adam Wolf wrote:
> Strontium,
>
> I assume you are talking about linux based on the word PPA, but mostly
> for other people on the list, you can do this with the MacOS KiCad.
>
> Adam
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Strontium <strntydog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is a question for the distribution maintainers,
> >
> > Is it possible to change the distribution PPA's (etc) so that one can
> > install the nightly and the stable version of kicad, simultaneously?
> >
> > When things like file format versions change then people have to make a
> > choice, do I run nightly and lose backward compatibility OR do I run stable
> > and lose newer features/the ability to test.   It would be handy to be able
> > to have Stable installed to do real work, and nightly also installed for
> > testing, or for boards where you really want access to a new feature early.
> >
> > Steven
> >
> >
> >
> > On 20/09/17 00:38, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> >
> > For your information: support for long pad and pin names has been just
> > merged. As the change affects both eeschema and pcbnew, and may result
> > in files that are not loaded correctly with older versions - the file
> > format versions had to be incremented.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Orson
> >
> >
> >
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