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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

We should defer this to v6 unless the fix is simple with little or no
risk of introducing new bugs.  I know it would be nice to have but I
could say that about a lot of things.  Scope creep will prevent us from
ever delivering v5.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 4/5/2018 12:25 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> If we are going to support multiple versions, on the developer side, we
> should add a preference versioning to the user configuration directory. 
> Otherwise, fp-lib-table will being either pointing to v4 or v5
> footprints.  Likewise, there are a few preferences that only exist in v5
> and will be lost when v4 saves the preference file.
> 
> To avoid cluttering the config directory, we could place the v5
> configurations in a v5 sub directory.  Configurations would be
> preferentially loaded from the v5 directory with a fall-back to the v4
> items if v5 items were not found.  Configurations would only be saved to
> the v5 subdir.
> 
> If we want to support this, we should insert this code before rc2. 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -S
> 
> 2018-04-04 22:24 GMT-07:00 Strontium <strntydog@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:strntydog@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     On 04/04/18 18:52, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote:
> 
>         So my questions are:
>         - Is it usefull ?
> 
> 
>     Having both versions be able to be installed side by side is
>     immensely valuable for an end user, and the development of kicad, in
>     my opinion.
> 
>     The users can "USE" the stable version for their work.  They can
>     also test the Nightly and not worry about it messing with their
>     work.  It should mean that general users have a better chance to
>     test the new version as it evolves, and they will feel more
>     involved, even if that involvement is only posting bugs.  They don't
>     have to choose between being on the bleeding edge, and being productive.
> 
>     It would be equally useful (maybe even more useful) to have kicad V4
>     and V5 installed simultaneously as well.
> 
>     Steven
> 
> 
> 
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