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[Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,


Since I provide PPA (daily build for Ubuntu) for KiCad, I receive some
requests about installing daily build packages in parallel with stable
version.
With next version (V5) I think it can be useful...
FreeCad provide this kind of feature and you are able to run both
version in parallel.

For testing that I had created a dedicated PPA:
ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-dev-daily
(to add with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-dev-daily)

Once added, you are able to install a new package "kicad-daily" that
won't conflict with existing "kicad" packages.
All files are installed on a separate folder and commands became
"something-daily". For example kicad-daily or pcbnew-daily...

So my questions are:
- Is it usefull ?
- Is it a bad idea/stupid :( ?
- If you test it, are you able to find some limitations/bugs ?
- Perhaps to have is plainly functional some modifications are needed.
What modifications ?


For the moment, you can't run in same time two versions (or there are
some error messages...) anyway both are installed and easily "runnable"...


Please give your comments, feedbacks...