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[Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is it usefull ?

Yes! Thank you ver much. I like to report bugs against nightly but don’t
always have time to compile and I need a fairly stable KiCad for other
work. I switched away from your daily ppa (ppa-kicad) since the schematic
lib table changes hit because I didn’t have time to deal with that.

I just managed to install kicad-nightly from
ppa:js-reynaud/ppa-kicad-nightly and used it to test if a feature request I
wanted to make hadn’t already been implemented.
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On 4 April 2018 at 10:52, Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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...
>
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