On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:02 -0700, KURT PETERS wrote: > I've gone here: > http://www.geda.seul.org/download.html > Is there somewhere else to pick up the ubuntu/deb release (1.4.2)? > Kurt
As far as I know, 1.4.2 hasn't yet been packaged for Debian or Ubuntu. 1.4.2 (and 1.4.3 when it comes) will good (and important) candidates for packaging in the "updates" section of any supported Ubuntu version which ships 1.4.0. We've been very careful to ensure that these are targeted, bug-fix only changes which don't break libgeda ABI. I've deliberately not produced any non-official Debian / Ubuntu packages, as this was deemed undesirable by the official packagers. I agree; it doesn't make sense for me to duplicate effort, nor to confuse the matter of where to get the best packages to run gEDA on these distros. I am, however, considering whether it would be useful to make a "ppa" (personal package archive) to package up 1.5.x releases, and perhaps even snapshots from git, which interested people could then test for me before our release. It would be tempting to make 1.6.x packages available for older Ubuntu releases though such a PPA (So users don't have to upgrade their entire distro to get the benefits of the new gEDA release when it comes). Alternatively, there are "backports" package archives in the distribution, which could potentially be used once the development version of the distro features 1.6.x. This would depend on what the Debian / Ubuntu packagers think, and have time to do. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
