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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
